{"id":235,"date":"2010-03-08t08:54:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-08t08:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vanderbilt.edu\/cft\/?p=235"},"modified":"2010-07-29t18:37:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29t18:37:19","slug":"in-defense-of-multiple-choice-exam-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2010\/03\/in-defense-of-multiple-choice-exam-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"in defense of multiple-choice exam questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" title=\"survey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.profhacker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2010\/03\/mcq-ph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/>cft assistant director derek bruff authored a guest post on the group blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.profhacker.com\" target=\"_blank\">profhacker<\/a> last week.\u00a0 in the post, he offered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.profhacker.com\/2010\/03\/05\/multiple-choice-questions-on-exams\/\" target=\"_blank\">a defense of the use of multiple-choice questions on exams<\/a>, arguing that they do more than save time grading.\u00a0 he described the kinds of multiple-choice questions he includes on exams, ones that are tied very closely to the learning objectives for the course.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2010\/01\/recommended-site-profhacker-tips-and-advice-for-college-faculty\/\">profhacker has been recommended here before<\/a>.\u00a0 it&#8217;s a group blog that provides tips, strategies, and advice for being productive and effective college and university instructors.\u00a0 three new posts appear each weekday, and the variety of topics covered means that you&#8217;re bound to find something useful several times a week.)<\/p>\n<p><em>image: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mhcseattle\/1111568504\/\">survey<\/a>&#8221; by flickr user mars hill church seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cft assistant director derek bruff authored a guest post on the group blog profhacker last week.\u00a0 in the post, he offered a defense of the use of multiple-choice questions on exams, arguing that they do more than save time grading.\u00a0 he described the kinds of multiple-choice questions he includes on exams, ones that are tied&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[61,71,69],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}