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    Multiple Choice Type of Test

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    A multiple choice test contains a stem (question) and options (possible answers) from which the test taker selects the correct or best answer. Guidelines for constructing good multiple choice items include using clear language without negatives or unfamiliar terms, keeping items short, making distractors equally plausible, avoiding revealing the answer in the stem, and not overlapping or sequencing options in a predictable order. Following these guidelines helps ensure a multiple choice test reliably measures the intended skills or knowledge.

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    Multiple Choice Type of Test

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    A multiple choice test contains a stem (question) and options (possible answers) from which the test taker selects the correct or best answer. Guidelines for constructing good multiple choice items include using clear language without negatives or unfamiliar terms, keeping items short, making distractors equally plausible, avoiding revealing the answer in the stem, and not overlapping or sequencing options in a predictable order. Following these guidelines helps ensure a multiple choice test reliably measures the intended skills or knowledge.

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    A multiple choice test contains a stem (question) and options (possible answers) from which the test taker selects the correct or best answer. Guidelines for constructing good multiple choice items include using clear language without negatives or unfamiliar terms, keeping items short, making distractors equally plausible, avoiding revealing the answer in the stem, and not overlapping or sequencing options in a predictable order. Following these guidelines helps ensure a multiple choice test reliably measures the intended skills or knowledge.

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    Multiple Choice Type of Test

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    Cruzille Dela Cruz
    A multiple choice test contains a stem (question) and options (possible answers) from which the test taker selects the correct or best answer. Guidelines for constructing good multiple choice items include using clear language without negatives or unfamiliar terms, keeping items short, making distractors equally plausible, avoiding revealing the answer in the stem, and not overlapping or sequencing options in a predictable order. Following these guidelines helps ensure a multiple choice test reliably measures the intended skills or knowledge.

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    Nathan Ted O. Mandac
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    What is a multiple choice test?
    -The multiple-choice test is a very flexible assessment format
    that can be used to measure knowledge, skills, abilities, values,
    thinking skills, etc.
    Parts of a Multiple choice test
    1. Stem – is the part to which the student is to respond. In
    everyday language, we'd call this the question, but since it
    could be a statement or even an analogy or an equation, we'll
    use the technical term, Stem.
    2. Options - are the choices from which examinees are to
    choose. There are two kinds of options: the Key is the correct
    or best choice; the Distracters are incorrect or less
    appropriate choices.
    Guidelines for constructing Multiple choice items

    1. Do not use unfamiliar words, terms, and phrases.

    Example: The study of phonology is a prerequisite to the study linguistics.

    2. Do not use modifiers that are vague and whose meanings can differ from one person
    to the next such as much, often, usually etc.
    3. Avoid complex or awkward word arrangements.

    4. Do not use negatives or double negatives as such statements tend to be confusing. It


    is best to use simpler sentences rather than sentences that would require expertise in
    grammatical construction.

    5. Each item should be short as possible; otherwise you risk testing more for reading
    and comprehension skills.

    6. Distracters should be equally plausible and attractive.

    Example: The short story May Day’s Eve was written by which author?
    a. Jose Garcia Villa c. Robert Frost
    b. Nick Joaquin d. Edgar Allan Poe
    7. All multiple choice options should be grammatically consistent with the stem?

    8. The length, explicitness, or degree of technicality of alternatives should not be the


    determinants of the correctness of the answer.
    Example: What was the role of the Druid priest?
    a. Record History
    b. Sing Hymns
    c. To serve as the middle man or intermediary between people and the gods
    d. Pray
    9. Avoid stems that reveal the answer to the item.

    10. Avoid alternatives that are synonymous with others or those that, include or
    overlap others.
    Example: The Greek God of the sea.
    a. Neptune c. Zeus
    b. Ares d. Poseidon

    11. Avoid presenting sequenced items in the same order as in the text.
    12. Avoid extreme specificity requirements in responses.
    13. Use “None of the above” option only when the keyed answer is totally correct.

    14. Having compound response choices may purposefully increase difficulty of an


    item.

    15. The difficulty of a multiple choice item may be controlled by varying the
    homogeneity or degree of similarity of responses.

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