Ask a Clear Question and Get a Clear Answer: An Enquiry into the Question/Answer and Sentence Completion Formats of Multiple Choice Items.

Statman, Stella

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Publication Date: 1988

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Ask a Clear Question and Get a Clear Answer: An Enquiry into the Question/Answer and Sentence Completion Formats of Multiple Choice Items.

Statman, Stella

SYSTEM, v16 n3 p367-76 1988

Multiple choice items formatted as a question with one of four distractors giving the correct answer are a clearer and more valid way of testing the reading comprehension of foreign learners of English than is the common format in which the testee must complete a sentence stem by choosing one of four distractors. (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Multiple Choice Tests, Questioning Techniques, Second Language Instruction, Test Format, Test Validity

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