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Multiple choice items
The document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of multiple choice items as assessment tools. It provides 10 suggestions for constructing effective multiple choice questions, such as ensuring each question tests a single concept, using grammatically consistent answer choices, and distributing correct answers randomly among options. The document also includes sample multiple choice questions and descriptive text about weather in Britain to demonstrate the concepts.
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- 1. MULTIPLE-CHOICE ITEMS Arranged by: Eti Purwaningsih 0901050165 Umi Sangadah 1001050065 Ayu Wulan Mei 1001050066 Desi Wijayanti 1001050067
- 2. THE ADVANTAGES OFMULTIPLE-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-CHOICEITEMS: 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 ConstructingMultiple 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 ConstructingMultiple 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 subjectshould 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 subjectmatter 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 subjectmatter 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 wholealternative 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 mattermust 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 lengthof 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 choicesdo 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 notuse 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 makingscore 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?