Tips on Classroom Assessment: How to Teach Our Students to Take Multiple-Choice Exams

by: Linda Tichenor
edited by: Thomas R. Lord, Donald P. French, and Linda W. Crow

Multiple-choice exams are one of the few assessment strategies available for large-lecture sections of students. The author teaches students who are recently out of high school and realizes that they need to be "taught" certain skills for taking multiple-choice exams. This chapter features a strategy devised by the author to focus on test errors. Overall, taking the time to instruct students how to become better test-takers has improved both student performance and the author's test-making ability.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 2/1/2009Stock # PB231X_6

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