Changing examination answers

Investigating the Effect of Changing Answers in Multiple-Choice Questions of Reading and Listening Tests in EFL Context

This study investigates whether the practice of answer changing on multiple-choice questions (MCQs) is beneficial for Iranian students’ overall test performance in EFL context. Several studies have shown that answer changing in multiple choice examinations is generally beneficial for improving scores. On the other hand, some studies have indicated that answer changing in multiple choice examina...

Ultrasound for internists: changing bedside examination.

Five Answers on Pragmatism

Prof. Haack answers a series of questions on pragmatism, beginning with the origins of this tradition in the work of Peirce and James, its evolution in the work of Dewey and Mead, and its influence beyond the United States in, for example, the Italian pragmatists and the radical British pragmatist F. C. S. Schiller. Classical pragmatism, she observes, is a rich and varied tradition from which t...

Changing Answers in Exams — for the Better or for the Worse?

During the year 2004, Utah State University offered three sessions of an introductory long–distance statistics course (Stat 2000) for students in its International Program in Hong Kong. These sessions were based on the electronic textbook CyberStats. The exams were given electronically and all student answers were stored in the CyberStats data base. All means that if a student changed the answe...

Not all errors are created equal: metacognition and changing answers on multiple-choice tests.

Two experiments investigated the role of metacognition in changing answers to multiple-choice, general-knowledge questions. Both experiments revealed qualitatively different errors produced by speeded responding versus confusability amongst the alternatives; revision completely corrected the former, but had no effect on the latter. Experiment 2 also demonstrated that a pretest, designed to make...