Multiple choice questions are a convenient and popular means of testing beginning students in programming courses. However, they are qualitatively different from exam questions. This paper reports on a study into which types of multiple choice programming questions discriminate well on a final exam, and how well they predict exam scores.

This excellent atlas illustrates clearly the fact that in echocardiography, to a much greater extent than in electrocardiography, the knowledge and skill of the person making the recordings determines the usefulness of the recordings themselves. With poor recording technique vital information may be missed or misleading records obtained. This is rightly stressed at the beginning of Salcedo's At...

Increasingly, academics are confronted with issues associated with assessment in large classes, arising from a combination of factors including higher student enrolments and the introduction of a trimester of study in many universities. The resulting increased time pressures on marking are causing many academics to search for alternative forms of assessment. University teachers are making more ...

This paper describes and evaluates DQGen, which automatically generates multiple choice cloze questions to test a child’s comprehension while reading a given text. Unlike previous methods, it generates different types of distracters designed to diagnose different types of comprehension failure, and tests comprehension not only of an individual sentence but of the context that precedes it. We ev...

Taking a test before study can improve subsequent learning of that pretested information. How the pretest affects subsequent learning of other information in the passage is less clear, however. In three experiments, we examined the consequences of taking a multiple-choice (MC) pretest on the later recall of both pretested and non-pretested related information, finding that pretesting improved r...

In this paper we wish to illustrate different perspectives used to create Multiple-Choice questions and we will show how we can improve these in the construction of math tests. As it is known, web technologies have a great influence on student’s behaviour. Based on an on-line project beginning at 2007 which has been contributing to help students on their individual work, we would like to share ...

The questions are divided up into groups by systems or diseases, and within each group five different types of test are presented. Medical students (certainly local ones) might have difficulty using the book, as the level of pharmacological information required is often greater than that expected of them, and selective use is not possible. However, it should provide a stimulus to teachers to co...

The present study was conducted to investigate whether forced-choice questions would lead to any particular tendency in young children’s responses. Two experiments were conducted in which 3to 5-year-olds children were shown a short animation and then were asked a set of two-option, forced-choice questions. Consistent findings were obtained: (i) Forced-choice questions influenced children’s resp...