{"id":848,"date":"2012-02-06T18:45:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T18:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=848"},"modified":"2012-02-06T18:45:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T18:45:15","slug":"a-nice-demonstration-of-a-problem-with-multiple-choice-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A nice demonstration of a problem with multiple-choice questions&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Capture-d7d.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-849\" title=\"Capture d7d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Capture-d7d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Capture-d7d.png 282w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Capture-d7d-236x300.png 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a>That was my husband&#8217;s comment when we were analysing responses to the question shown on the left. Start by noting that although this is a drag and drop question it is indeed effectively a multiple-choice (or multiple-response) question\u00a0&#8211; you can choose from eight pre-determined options for each &#8216;blank&#8217; that you are required to fill. It is also worth noting that this question is on the formative-only practice assessment.<\/p>\n<p>62% of students get the question right at first attempt. However 23% are still wrong after three attempts,\u00a0having received\u00a0all our carefully crafted feedback. And whilst 54.1% of responses are completely correct, all the other responses appear to have been guessed from the plausible options. Not really how you want students to be answering questions. Not good! I wrote the question, so I&#8217;m allowed to say that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That was my husband&#8217;s comment when we were analysing responses to the question shown on the left. Start by noting that although this is a drag and drop question it is indeed effectively a multiple-choice (or multiple-response) question\u00a0&#8211; you can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=848\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,77],"tags":[393,76],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drag-and-drop","category-multiple-choice-questions","tag-drag-and-drop","tag-multiple-choice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}