Don’t throw the baby out with the multiple-choice bath water — from elearninguncovered.com by Diane Elkins

Excerpt:

Multiple-choice questions are often maligned by instructional designers. I’ve heard the following at conferences.

  • “Multiple-choice questions don’t measure anything.”
  • “It’s too easy to guess them.”
  • “Real life doesn’t have multiple-choice questions, so why should our course?”