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Should Professors (a) Use Multiple Choice Tests or (b) Avoid Them At All Costs?

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Multiple-choice questions don’t belong in college. Yet more professors seem to be turning to the format these days, as teaching loads and class sizes grow, since multiple-choice quizzes and tests can be easily graded by machines. There are rules to writing good multiple-choice questions.

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Test Grading Cloud available to all teachers for free

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Remark Test Grading Cloud is a hosted application for grading tests, quizzes and assessments. Using electronic bubble sheets, you can create a customized answer sheet that can include multiple choice questions, math grids, or open response items such as short answers or essays.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

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The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. And finally, students are anxious about statistics courses because they aren’t good at math, don’t have the math background, and are convinced they won’t be able to run the tests or do the statistical calculations.

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What Happens When a School Closes Its Library?

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If you're invested so much in reading and math, then you're missing a major component [by closing libraries]. For short-answer questions, they wrote on an index card. Over and over, until it was time for a five-question quiz. I teach them to love to read,” Hensley said. “If Because if a kid loves to read, they will read more.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

Faculty Focus

The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. And finally, students are anxious about statistics courses because they aren’t good at math, don’t have the math background, and are convinced they won’t be able to run the tests or do the statistical calculations.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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And while many educators believe that word problems in math class are tougher for students to grasp than ones with mathematical notation, research shows that the opposite is true. More than 4 out of 10 college students wind up in remedial math or English courses, and those that do are even less likely than other students to finish college.

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