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WRITING MULTIPLE CHOICE EXAM ITEMS DOUGLAS A. BERNSTEIN University of South Florida Southampton University douglas.bernstein@ SOME MYTHS ABOUT MCQs USEFUL MAINLY FOR TESTING BASIC, FACTUAL INFORMATION NOT USEFUL FOR ASSESSING LEARNING AT HIGHER COGNITIVE LEVELS BLOOM’S TAXONOMY OF COGNITIVE SKILLS SOME MYTHS ABOUT MCQs USEFUL MAINLY FOR TESTING BASIC, FACTUAL INFORMATION NOT USEFUL FOR ASSESSING LEARNING AT HIGHER COGNITIVE LEVELS NOT AS GOOD OVERALL AS ESSAY EXAMS EASY TO WRITE NO SPECIAL PRACTICE NEEDED THE TRUTH ABOUT MCQs THEY CAN, INDEED, TEST MEMORY OF FACTUAL INFORMATION A “REMEMBERING” ITEM Who wrote War and Peace? a. Rachmoninov b. Tolstoy c. Dostoyevsky d. Solzhenitsyn THE TRUTH ABOUT MCQs THEY CAN, INDEED, TEST MEMORY OF FACTUAL INFORMATION THEY CAN ALSO TEST THE ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND, APPLY, ANALYZE, AND EVALUATE INFORMATION MCQs FOR ALL LEVELS AN “UNDERSTANDING” ITEM During a sleep study, you notice that your research participant’s EEG shows brain activity known as spindles and K-complexes. The participant is probably in stage ___ sleep. a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4 MCQs FOR ALL LEVELS AN “APPLYING” ITEM Naomi asked seven randomly selected people the following question, On a scale from 0 (not at all) to 9 (definitely), how strongly do you believe in ghosts? Their responses were as follows: 0, 0, 1, 1, 9, 9, 9. Which measure of central tendency should Naomi use if she wants to convince her friends that most people strongly believe in ghosts? A. Mode C. Median B. Mean D. Range AN “ANALYZING” ITEM The difference between state and trait anxiety is that a. The former refers to general anxiety and the latter refers to situational anxiety. b. The former refers to situational anxiety and the latter refers to general anxiety. c. The former refers to physiological responses and the latter refers to questionnaire responses. d. The former refers to questionnaire responses