TY - GEN
T1 - Can multiple-choice questions simulate free-response questions?
AU - Lin, Shih Yin
AU - Singh, Chandralekha
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - We discuss a study to evaluate the extent to which free-response questions could be approximated by multiple-choice equivalents. Two carefully designed research-based multiple-choice questions were transformed into a free-response format and administered on the final exam in a calculus-based introductory physics course. The original multiple-choice questions were administered in another similar introductory physics course on final exam. Findings suggest that carefully designed multiple-choice questions can reflect the relative performance of the free-response questions while maintaining the benefits of ease of grading and quantitative analysis, especially if the different choices in the multiple-choice questions are weighted to reflect the different levels of understanding that students display.
AB - We discuss a study to evaluate the extent to which free-response questions could be approximated by multiple-choice equivalents. Two carefully designed research-based multiple-choice questions were transformed into a free-response format and administered on the final exam in a calculus-based introductory physics course. The original multiple-choice questions were administered in another similar introductory physics course on final exam. Findings suggest that carefully designed multiple-choice questions can reflect the relative performance of the free-response questions while maintaining the benefits of ease of grading and quantitative analysis, especially if the different choices in the multiple-choice questions are weighted to reflect the different levels of understanding that students display.
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U2 - 10.1063/1.3679990
DO - 10.1063/1.3679990
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84863146782
SN - 9780735409903
T3 - AIP Conference Proceedings
SP - 47
EP - 50
BT - 2011 Physics Education Research Conference
T2 - 2011 Physics Education Research Conference
Y2 - 3 August 2011 through 4 August 2011
ER -