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Chapter 1
1.0 Introduction
A traditional multiple choice questions (MCQs) is one in which a student chooses one answer from a number of choices supplied (normally five choices based on A, B, C, D and E). Basically, MCQs consists of the question (stem), the choices provided after the stem (options), the correct answer in the list of options (key) and distracters which are the incorrect answers in the list of options Some of the main advantages and characteristics of the multiple choice questions are
• Marked quickly, sometimes using automatic scanners.
• Marked by markers with minimal training or preparation.
• Used flexibly in print and electronic forms for assessment (including self-assessment) that provides students and teachers with timely, and sometimes automated, feedback on teaching and learning .
• Highly reliable in that results are consistent from student to student and over time.
• An efficient and effective way of assessing factual knowledge.
• Effectively used for quick perception checks during lectures and for systematic revision.
1.1 Problem and Setting
1.1.2 Problem
The answers to the multiple choice questions (MCQs) are written on special forms with blank squares. These forms are scanned and grading is done by comparing the answers with those inputs by the examiner. In some schools entrance exam are required to test the knowledge of the students and to know if they are qualified. The problem is that the process of enrollment is being interrupt which is cause by the result of the entrance exam that is usually late. Another problem is the process of checking papers which is very slow that takes weeks to finish.
1.1.3 Setting
In 1931, Reynold B. Johnson was teaching high school physics in Ironwood, Michigan, when he began experimenting with an electrical machine that could grade his students’ tests. The machine he designed could detect pencil marks on an answer sheet using tiny electrical circuits, and then compare them to an answer
1.0 Introduction
A traditional multiple choice questions (MCQs) is one in which a student chooses one answer from a number of choices supplied (normally five choices based on A, B, C, D and E). Basically, MCQs consists of the question (stem), the choices provided after the stem (options), the correct answer in the list of options (key) and distracters which are the incorrect answers in the list of options Some of the main advantages and characteristics of the multiple choice questions are
• Marked quickly, sometimes using automatic scanners.
• Marked by markers with minimal training or preparation.
• Used flexibly in print and electronic forms for assessment (including self-assessment) that provides students and teachers with timely, and sometimes automated, feedback on teaching and learning .
• Highly reliable in that results are consistent from student to student and over time.
• An efficient and effective way of assessing factual knowledge.
• Effectively used for quick perception checks during lectures and for systematic revision.
1.1 Problem and Setting
1.1.2 Problem
The answers to the multiple choice questions (MCQs) are written on special forms with blank squares. These forms are scanned and grading is done by comparing the answers with those inputs by the examiner. In some schools entrance exam are required to test the knowledge of the students and to know if they are qualified. The problem is that the process of enrollment is being interrupt which is cause by the result of the entrance exam that is usually late. Another problem is the process of checking papers which is very slow that takes weeks to finish.
1.1.3 Setting
In 1931, Reynold B. Johnson was teaching high school physics in Ironwood, Michigan, when he began experimenting with an electrical machine that could grade his students’ tests. The machine he designed could detect pencil marks on an answer sheet using tiny electrical circuits, and then compare them to an answer