Chapter 7c

In my own educational career, I recall multiple choice tests not always being as accurate as the educator hoped them to be. My peers and I would find flaws in the wording or even find multiple answers that would be suitable to accurately answer the question presented. For this reason, I found this section of chapter seven, about multiple choice and its guidelines, interesting. I thought it was neat that this section gave specific ideas as to what to keep in mind when creating these types of assessments. In my own future classroom, I know that creating multiple choice has both advantages and disadvantages and I will need to be careful not to use them too often to assess my students. One advantage is that multiple choice requires students to know detailed specifics about a concept or topic in order to answer a question correctly, especially when it comes down to more than one answer being potentially correct. This could also be a disadvantage as the student may not see the minor details of two or more choices and mistake an incorrect answer for being the correct answer. Overall, it is important for educators to vary assessment in their classroom to find an accurate picture of how and what their students know and can do.