{"id":1228,"date":"2014-03-04T16:27:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T22:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2014-12-16T16:27:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T22:27:59","slug":"examining-your-multiple-choice-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/examining-your-multiple-choice-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Examining Your Multiple-Choice Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tuesday, March 4, 2014 \u201cExamining Your Multiple-Choice Questions\u201d<\/strong> In a recent article on The Faculty Focus website, Dr. Maryellen Weimer challenges the belief that multiple-choice questions are the best for exams and tests. \u00a0She states, \u00a0\u201cAnswering multiple-choice questions doesn\u2019t teach students how to formulate answers; it teaches them how to select answers. And sometimes choosing the correct answer is more a function of literary skill than content knowledge. Multiple-choice questions encourage guessing, and if the guess is correct, students get credit for something they didn\u2019t know. Answer options contain misinformation\u2014that\u2019s what makes them wrong. As students read and consider all the possible answers, they are exposed to incorrect content, which some research has shown influences subsequent thinking about the topic.\u201d \u00a0To read more of Dr. Weimer\u2019s article,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facultyfocus.com\/articles\/teaching-professor-blog\/examining-multiple-choice-questions\/\">please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, March 4, 2014 \u201cExamining Your Multiple-Choice Questions\u201d In a recent article on The Faculty Focus website, Dr. Maryellen Weimer challenges the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5DI6r-jO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}