Advantages, Disadvantages, Suggestion for Constructing Multiple Choice Items

1. MULTIPLE-CHOICE ITEMS
Arranged by:
Eti Purwaningsih 0901050165
Umi Sangadah 1001050065
Ayu Wulan Mei 1001050066
Desi Wijayanti 1001050067

2. THE ADVANTAGES OF MULTIPLE-CHOICE ITEMS :
1. Multiple-choice items can measure various cognitive
levels.
2. Making score is easy, fast, and objective
3. They are appropriate to test containing many
participants, while the results should be announced
soon.
4. Students not only learn the wrong answer
choices, but they also really know the right answer
choices.
5. This test gives a better reliability.

3. DISADVANTAGES OF MULTIPLE-CHOICE ITEMS:
1. This test takes relatively long time to prepare
questions.
2. Difficulty of making a homogeneous distracters
and functioning.
3. This test can not measure students’ verbal
ability .
4. Allows students to choose the wrong answer
because they do not know the right answer.

4. Suggestions for Constructing Multiple Choice
Items :

5. Descriptive Text
BRITAIN
In Britain, the weather is very varied, people never
know what it will be like the next day.
The Summer is warmer than the Winter, but even
in Summer the average temperature is only 16o.
Sometimes the sun shines, but at the other times the
sky is covered in cloud, and it often rains.
In Winter country. The temperature may fall below
0o, and it is sometimes very cold, especially in the north
of the then there is often snow and ice.
The best season of the year is late Spring. At this
time of the year the weather is often sunny and quite
warm, the countryside looks very green, and there are
wild flowers everywhere.
Adopted from : Steppingstone

6. Suggestions for Constructing Multiple Choice Items:
1. Main problems should be formulated clearly
and firmly.
1. How many seasons are mentioned in the text?
a. 2 seasons
b. 3 seasons
c. 4 seasons
d. 5 seasons
2. Britain has ……
a. Many seasons
b. A big palace
c. Various animals
d. Many industries

7. 2. The subject should be a statement of the
required course.
1. In Spring the weather is often ….
a. Bright and warm
b. Cloudy
c. Very cold
d. Rainy
2. In Britain, the weather is very varied, people never know what
it will be like the next day. The best season of the year is late
Spring. At this time of the year the weather is often ….
a. Bright and warm
b. Cloudy
c. Very cold
d. Rainy

8. 3. The subject matter do not give clues to the
correct answer.
1. The text tells us about…
a. The seasons in Britain
b. The temperature in Britain
c. The countryside in Britain
d. The university in Britain
2. The text tells us about…
a. There are many seasons in Britain such as
Summer, Winter, Spring.
b. Rain is usually happened in Summer
c. In Summer is warmer than Winter
d. The average temperature in Britain

9. 4. The subject matter should not contain statements
that are double negative.
1. What season is when the weather is not very cold and
the temperature is only 16o ?
a. Summer
b. Winter
c. Spring
d. Autumn
2. What season is when the weather is not very cold and the
temperature is not sunny and quite warm ?
a. Summer
b. Winter
c. Spring
d. Autumn

10. 5. The whole alternative options should be
grammatically consistent.
1.In the Spring, the countryside looks …
a. Very green
b. Very clean
c. Very quite
d. Very shadow
2. In the Spring, the countryside …
a. Looks very green
b. Is very cold
c. Is very clean
d. Looks very shadow

11. 6. A matter must contain only one right answer
and clear.
1.In the Winter, the weather is often …
a. Snow and ice
b. Warm and sunny
c. Cold and sunny
d. Cloudy and rainy
2. In the Winter, the weather is often …
a. Snow
b. Ice
c. Warm
d. Rainy

12. 7. The length of the formula should be relatively
the same answer choices.
1. The text tells us about…
a. The season in Britain
b. The temperature in Britain
c. The countryside in Britain
d. The university in Britain
2. The text tells us about…
a. There are many seasons in Britain such as
Summer, Winter, Spring.
b. Rain is usually happened in Summer
c. In Summer is warmer than Winter
d. The average temperature in Britain

13. 8.Correct answers must appear on each
alternative position in the same amount, but at
random.

14. 9. Answer choices do not contain the statement,
“All options on the wrong answer”, or “All
options on the right answer”.
1. One of the seasons in Britain is …
a. Winter
b. Summer
c. Spring
d. All options on the right answer

15. 10. Do not use multiple choice questions when the
type is more feasible is another matter.
1. Retell the text above !
a. The text tells us about …..
b.
c.
d.

16. QUESTIONS
1. Why making score in the multiple choice is
easy, fast, and objective?
2. Why is it very appropriate to test containing many
participants, while the result should be announced
soon?
3. “It takes long time to prepare the questions.” What
does the statement mean?
4. What is the purpose of distracters?
5. What do the statements that should not be
included in the options?