Designing and Managing MCQs:
CONTENTS
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Purpose of this handbook.
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1.1 This handbook is designed to...
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1.2 Experience of MCQs in departments at UCT
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1.3 The Technology-Assisted Testing (TAT) programme
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What are Multiple Choice Questions?
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2.1 Definition.
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2.2 Advantages of Multiple Choice Questions.
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2.3 Problems associated with Multiple Choice Questions.
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2.4 The multiple uses of Multiple Choice Question tests.
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2.5 Managing the use of MCQs at departmental and course team level
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Some selected examples of Multiple Choice Questions.
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3.1 Philosophy of Education (First year B.Ed. course)
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3.2 Sociology (First year course)
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3.3 Economics (First year course)
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Scoring and statistics.
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4.1 Negative marking. To use or not to use?
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4.2 Applying negative marking to each question.
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4.3 Applying negative marking to the entire test.
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4.4 The percentage score.
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4.5 Adjustment of final percentages.
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4.6 Question attributes.