Advantages and disadvantages of Objective Tests in learning

      

Advantages and disadvantages of Objective Tests in learning

  

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Faith
1. They allow for a wide content coverage.
2. They can be used to stimulate either convergent or divergent thinking, to learn facts, concepts
and principles.
3. The questions call for specific information and this encourages learners to pay close attention
to details of what they are studying.
4. Scoring is done quickly and more objectively.
5. High scoring reliability because there is only one correct answer per response.
6. It is easy to mark.
Disadvantages.
- Setting as time-consuming.
- It is expensive in terms of paper and human power.
- It tends to measure partial and superficial knowledge rather than broad conceptual
understanding.
- It is not effective in testing student's ability to organize their thought or to write
coherently.
- They tend to test recall or factual informational items rather than creativity.
- They give room for guessing.

Titany answered the question on November 2, 2021 at 10:24


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