View this post on Hive: Seven reasons why written exams are an invalid measure of students' ability
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I agree with your points but it is difficult to assess in other ways (and more expensive). Many exams have moved tonmultiple choice or complex multiple choice because they are computer marked and hence cheap to administer.
The only other option is to have marked assessments and activity in class. This is difficult and ultimately subjective (and more expensive to administer). Difficult one.
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Written exams may have some limitations but I feel they are still preferable to multiple choice. Multiple choice limits the mind by subliminally teaching students that the answers will be provided and you need to choose from the options presented to you.
Seems a lot like brain washing to me.
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Very thought provoking. In Intro to Soc classes in the US most teachers tend to rely almost completely on multiple choice tests. As a GA in a Soc program I admit to succumbing to this easy way out, mainly cause everyone else was doing it. But I never thought it was a good measure of what I was really trying to teach. What I wanted more than anything was for my students to lean to use the sociological imagination, to learn to think critically on a societal level as opposed to meeting societal problems with individual solutions. I think this could better be done with essay tests, which I have always preferred as a better assessment of knowledge (but for reasons you address, they are certainly not perfect either). But they are not only far more difficult and time consuming to grade, but with a subject like sociology you are bound to get complaints from students who feel you are marking them down simply because you do not agree with them politically.
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