Describe the advantages and disadvantages of each of the four objective test formats
What will be an ideal response?
1. True/false
2. Advantages: tend to be short so more material can be covered, fast to construct, easy to score
3. Disadvantages: tend to emphasize rote memorization, assume an unequivocally true or false answer, allow and may even encourage guessing
4. Matching
5. Advantages: simple to construct and score, ideal for measuring associations between facts, avoid repetition of options in measuring association, reduce the effects of guessing
6. Disadvantages: tend to ask trivial information, emphasize memorization, most commercial answer sheets accommodate only five options, thus limiting the size of a matching item.
7. Multiple-Choice
8. Advantages: versatile in measuring objectives for knowledge level to evaluation level, a lot of material can be sampled quickly, scoring is highly objective, can be written so students must discriminate amount options, reduce effects of guessing, amenable to statistical analysis
9. Disadvantages: time consuming to write, if not carefully written, can have more than one defensible correct answer
10. Completion
11. Advantages: question construction is relatively easy, guessing is reduced, less time is needed to complete so more content can be covered
12. Disadvantages: encourages a low level of response complexity, can be difficult to score, very short answers tend to measure recall instead of more complex thought
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