multiple-choice

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A student carefully fills in a circle on a multiple-choice test.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Offering several alternative answers from which the correct one is to be chosen: Describes a question or test format where a respondent must select the single correct answer from a provided list of options.
   • Consisting of such questions: Describes an assessment, exam, or quiz that is primarily or entirely composed of questions with this format.

Usage

• The term "multiple-choice" is used attributively, almost always placed directly before a noun (e.g., "multiple-choice question," "multiple-choice section").
• It describes a specific, closed-ended format for questions, distinguishing it from open-ended formats like essays or short answers.

Examples

• Adjective:
  • The final exam will include fifty multiple-choice questions.
  • I prefer multiple-choice tests to essay exams.
  • Please use a pencil to fill in the circles on the multiple-choice answer sheet.

Advanced Usage

• "Multiple-choice item": A formal term used in educational testing and psychometrics to refer to a single multiple-choice question.
  • The test developer wrote new multiple-choice items for the biology unit.
• "Multiple-choice format": Refers to the structural design of the question type itself.
  • The survey used a multiple-choice format for ease of data analysis.

Variants and Related Words

• Multiple-choice question (MCQ) (n): The full, common term for the question type itself.
  • Answer every multiple-choice question on the test.
• Multiple-guess (n, informal/humorous): A jocular, sometimes critical term implying that answering involves guessing rather than knowledge.
  • He called the pop quiz a multiple-guess nightmare.

Synonyms

• Objective (adj, in testing contexts): Describes a question format, like multiple-choice or true/false, where scoring is not subject to personal judgment.
  • The first part of the test is objective.
• Selected-response (adj): A more technical term used in education to describe any question where the answer is chosen from given options (includes multiple-choice, true/false, matching).
  • The assessment uses selected-response items to measure core knowledge.

Related Phrases

• "To bubble in" (v, phrasal verb): The action of filling in the answer bubble on a multiple-choice answer sheet.
  • Remember to bubble in your answers clearly.
• "Distractor" (n): In a multiple-choice question, an incorrect answer option designed to appear plausible.
  • Two of the four distractors were easily eliminated.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. offering several alternative answers from which the correct one is to be chosen; or consisting of such questions
   • multiple-choice questions
   • a multiple-choice test