Employing Multiple-Answer Multiple Choice Questions
Andrew K. Petersen, Michelle L. Craig, Paul C. Denny · 2016
Increasing enrollments and adoption of online resources have encouraged the use of multiple choice questions as a means of providing scalable assessment. However, in contexts where formative feedback is desired, standard multiple choice questions may lead students to a false sense of confidence -- a result of their small solution space and the temptation to guess. We propose the use of multiple-answer multiple choice questions in situations where formative feedback is desired and present evidence that these questions are well suited for that role.