WED 463 CH 6 study guide
A limitation of multiple choice items is they can only measure simple learning outcomes
False
It is a good strategy to include answers to earlier items that help students answer subsequent items.
False
Multiple choice items can only be used to assess a students ability to remember information
False
Multiple choice items can only be used to measure complex learning outcomes
False
Scores from multiple choice items are influenced more by guessing than true-false items.
False
To increase the difficulty of multiple choice items, it is a good strategy to state the stem in negative form
False
The lack of plausible, but incorrect, alternatives will cause the greatest difficulty when constructing
Multiple-choice items
Multiple -choice items in a test should have
Only plausible distractors.
Distractors are the plausible wrong answers in a multiple choice test
True
Lack of plausible, but incorrect alternatives, should cause the test author to consider changing the test item from a multiple choice item to true false.
True
Nothing in a test item should prevent an informed student from answering correctly
True
The difficulty of multiple choice items can be raised by increasing the plausibility of the distractors
True
The distractors of a multiple-choice test item should be about the same length as the correct answer
True
The more alternatives that are included in an item the less chance that the student will guess correctly
True
The use of all of the above as an alternative should be avoided when possible
True
Which of the following should be avoided because they might enable students to select the correct answer by guessing or eliminating an incorrect alternative?
Verbal clues
Multiple-choice items designed to measure complex achievement contain
alternatives at the evaluate level
Increasing the number of alternatives in the items of a test produces the same effect as
ensuring the objectives are tested
To increase the plausibility of distractors, make certain the distractors are
grammatically consistent with the stem
Follow all of the following for constructing multiple-choise items EXCEPT
put as little wording as possible in the stem of the item.
