PSYCH 2H03 Quiz: MCQ Handout(Jan2018)
26 Feb 2018
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Tips for constructing multiple-choice items: use question format whenever possible and sentence-completion format only when necessary. Use students" most common errors on constructed-response tests. Use distracters that are similar to the correct answer in content, length, and complexity. Use words that sound important or have associations to the stem. Ignore any of the preceding suggestions when you have a good reason to do so. Cognitive process dimension: remember: retrieving relevant knowledge from long-term memory recognizing; recalling, understand: determining the meaning of instructional messages, including oral, written, and graphic communications interpreting; exemplifying; classifying; summarizing; inferring; comparing; A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: a revision of. Haladyna and shindoll (1989) describe an item shell as a hollow mc item that has a syntactic structure, but no content. The test writer can insert important concepts into the item shell to construct challenging. The use of item shells can make writing mc items easier and assist the writer in constructing challenging items.
