Multiple‐choice questions: fact, fallacy and fancy

Autor:	L. J. Edouard, F. T. C. Harris
Rok vydání:	1983
Předmět:	Scheme (programming language) Fallacy Actuarial science Applied Mathematics nutritional and metabolic diseases Measure (mathematics) Education Identification (information) Mathematics (miscellaneous) computer Algorithm Mathematics computer.programming_language Multiple choice
Zdroj:	International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology. 14:685-691
ISSN:	1464-5211 0020-739X
DOI:	10.1080/0020739830140605
Popis:	Thousands of candidates submit themselves to computer‐scored examinations annually. Whilst the great majority of these are controlled by external examining boards, an important portion involve undergraduate and postgraduate medical examinations in which there is little review of the effects of the scoring schemes used. This particularly applies where such question papers require the identification of false as well as true alternatives. The role of true alternatives in multiple‐choice question papers has been overemphasized up to now. Although candidates tend to refrain from attempting the false alternatives, the latter provide a valuable measure of candidate performance. A scoring scheme, which also makes allowances for any disproportion in the numbers of true and false alternatives, is suggested: true and false alternatives are scored separately, the resulting scores being given equal importance in the calculation of the final score.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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