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| Are multiple choice questions a thing of the past? |
Is this good news or bad?
As a student, I personally loved MCQs - it gave me a 20-25% chance of getting the correct answer when I'm stumped by the questions. If desperate and given enough time, I can even sneakily reverse engineer answers.
Plus it's less stressful to pick from 5 options instead of having to sift through all the information in my brain to access the appropriate answer.
Because MCQ exams are usually marked by machines, students get their results quicker, and marking feels more objective.
Unfortunately, some of these reasons why I adore MCQs is what led to its abolishment from CQU, understandably -
CQU pro vice chancellor Professor Rob Reed has expressed that to be able to apply learnings in the real world, students must get used to forming answers with their own minds because it is highly unlikely students will get presented with a few neat alternatives to make a selection once they graduate. Students will have to come up with the alternatives themselves.
Also, by allowing students the flexibility of writing their own answers, it is believed that students will be better positioned to display their knowledge instead of losing out if they get confused by the sometimes deceptively similar MCQ answers.
Short answers - as short as a single word - will replace MCQ when CQU starts a new term next month.
Do you prefer MCQs or subjective answers?
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Source: The Australian
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