Use a No. 2 pencil, fill out each circle completely, and don't make any stray marks--these are rules every child learns when taking standardized tests that are largely based on multiple choice. But ...

[This is a guest post by Derek Bruff, an assistant director of the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University, where he is also a senior lecturer in Mathematics. His book, Teaching with Classroom ...

I was delighted to read Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig’s essay on the demise of the multiple-choice exam because, if these futurists are correct, we will see changes in education even more ...

Ideally, multiple-choice exams would be random, without patterns of right or wrong answers. However, all tests are written by humans, and human nature makes it impossible for any test to be truly ...

Can someone explain to me why so many examinations have become multiple choice instead of direct questions requiring you to work out the answer by reasoned deduction? In my youth it was common to ...