Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:4415] RE: IFETS-DISCUSSION digest 503
From: Alfred Bork (bork@uci.edu)
Date: Wed 26 Feb 2003 - 07:51:07 MET
From: "Alfred Bork" <bork@uci.edu> Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:4415] RE: IFETS-DISCUSSION digest 503 Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 22:51:07 -0800
Multiple choice is a terrible technique for any use. It was an attempt
to consider large numbers, I believe. But it is a poor approach to
testing. Students call it multiple guess, a good description. The skills
taught in connection for multiple choice are not knowledge skills, but
skills on optimizing guessing.
Further, with computers, we no longer need it. The sooner we realize
this, and the sooner we explore other possibilities, the better off
learning will be.
Alfred Bork
School of Information and
Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
www.ics.uci.edu/~bork
book with Sigrun Gunnarsdottir
Tutorial Distance Learning - Kluwer
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