Multiple-Choice Questioning Is an Efficient Instructional Methodology That May Be Widely Implemented in Academic Courses to Improve Exam Performance.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Glass, Arnold L.; Sinha, Neha
- Source
- Current Directions in Psychological Science. Dec2013, Vol. 22 Issue 6, p471-477. 7p.
- Subject
- *MULTIPLE choice examinations
*ACADEMIC achievement
*TEACHING methods
*EFFECTIVE teaching
*PEDAGOGICAL content knowledge
*MIDDLE schools
*UNIVERSITIES & colleges
- Language
- ISSN
- 0963-7214
Distributed multiple-choice questioning during instruction improves exam performance in middle-school and college classes. Instructional multiple-choice questioning is effective whether done in class or online and improves performance on short-answer and free-recall exam questions as well as multiple-choice questions. It may improve performance on exam questions about facts not previously queried. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]