Student strategies when taking open-ended test questions

Comparing Human and Automated Evaluation of Open-Ended Student Responses to Questions of Evolution

Written responses can provide a wealth of data in understanding student reasoning on a topic. Yet they are timeand laborintensive to score, requiring many instructors to forego them except as limited parts of summative assessments at the end of a unit or course. Recent developments in Machine Learning (ML) have produced computational methods of scoring written responses for the presence or abse...

When open-ended questions don't work: the role of palliative paternalism in difficult medical decisions.

Abstract The balance between patient autonomy and medical paternalism must be reexamined. The tension between autonomy and paternalism is both an ethical and practical issue. Autonomy is the current gold standard approach to patient communication and has grown to the point that patient preference dictates care, even when their choices are not possible or are medically nonbeneficial. Furthermore...

Design Strategies for Open-Ended Evolution

Second language reading topic familiarity and test score: test-taking strategies for multiple-choice comprehension questions

The main purpose of this study was to compare the strategies used by Chinesespeaking students when confronted with familiar versus unfamiliar topics in a multiplechoice format reading comprehension test. The focus was on describing what students do when they are taking reading comprehension tests by asking students to verbalize their thoughts. The strategies were further compared with participa...

Comparing comprehension measured by multiple-choice and open-ended questions.

This study compared the nature of text comprehension as measured by multiple-choice format and open-ended format questions. Participants read a short text while explaining preselected sentences. After reading the text, participants answered open-ended and multiple-choice versions of the same questions based on their memory of the text content. The results indicated that performance on open-ende...