Questions of substance: the pros and cons and solutions:
Positives:
1 - substantive reform
2 - Ease and speed of reform
3 - ability to cover the material and absorbed: in the service of knowledge, and students at the
4 - provide an opportunity for students to live the same
5 - Resolution: This is achieved by:
- Choose the exact words
- And the tightening of the question
- And a good selection of the proposed solutions
And thus combine the elements that make the student invests all or most of the time to answer, not understand the question.
6 - brief: What spare the pupil and the subsequent editing of misspelled or synthetic ...
7 - Resolution: Because the answer does not leave room for the student to cover his inability to realize the desired Balasttarad Alttoih in the maze and nothing to do with adequacy.
Cons, and solutions:
1 - Easy transfer of neighbor answer: To overcome the negative effects of downsizing, Professor seeks to devise a method of noise, such as changing the citizen questions from paper to paper, or change the citizen in question is one solution. (Difficulty in setup and ease of repair, as opposed to open-ended question).
2- hit the correct answer is a gamble: it was expressed by the difficulty of distinguishing between the happy ignorance of the answers and the ability of the right answers.
The golden rule to address this problem, and mitigation that are not built multiple-choice questions with less than four answers proposed to reduce the share of "luck" to 25% max.
With recourse to the "General solutions" such as "all" or "no one"... and work on the book through the recommendation of students warning them of the consequences of random selection, and that the points will decrease them in case of error.
3- The possibility of infiltration of the wrong answers to mind: To overcome this problem is usually recommended at least two things:
- Make errors in the proposed solutions relative not absolute
- Giving priority to the solutions of positive solutions to negative
4- stereotyping the people and culture and I believe that this is likely only if the quality of the closed questions alone, but we collect them, we try to take advantage of both positive without negligence than involve him of caveats and gaps.
