{"id":2485,"date":"2017-11-02T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2017-12-07T14:00:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:00:37","slug":"multiple-choice-tests-are-a-good-or-b-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/multiple-choice-tests-are-a-good-or-b-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple-Choice Tests Are A) Good or B) Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/AdobeStock_130821110_Credit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2487\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/AdobeStock_130821110_Credit-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"AdobeStock_130821110_Credit\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/AdobeStock_130821110_Credit-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/AdobeStock_130821110_Credit-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Teachers hate (and love) <strong>multiple-choice tests<\/strong>. On the one hand, they seem dreadfully reductive. On the other, they&#8217;re blissfully easy to grade &#8212; and easy grading is never to be belittled.<\/p>\n<p>In our recent conversation, Pooja Agarwal recommended multiple-choice tests as one kind of <strong>retrieval practice<\/strong>. Inspired by her guidance, you might be asking yourself: &#8220;what can researchers tell me about the best kind of multiple-choice test to give?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re asking yourself that question, look no further: the estimable Andrew Butler is on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningscientists.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/10-1\" target=\"_blank\">case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(For example: if you want to know <em>how many distractors<\/em> to include on your test, you should see what Butler has to say&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers hate (and love) multiple-choice tests. On the one hand, they seem dreadfully reductive. On the other, they&#8217;re blissfully easy to grade &#8212; and easy grading is never to be belittled. In our recent conversation, Pooja Agarwal recommended multiple-choice tests as one kind of retrieval practice. Inspired by her guidance, you might be asking yourself: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-2485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-classroom-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions\/2490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}