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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach at community colleges. My classes are very heavy in requiring actual thinking, but the students seem prepared for only multiple-choice exams that require them to “recognize” answers, not come up with answers via intense thinking.

Student preparedness has been going down for about 10 yrs. I put most of the blame on high school teachers & their reliance on Scantrons. When a test approaches, the students’ main concern is whether they have to provide their own Scantrons. They are shocked when I tell them I’ve never used them for classroom evaluations.

Think about it. If your exam is all multiple-choice, you don’t really have to KNOW the material to pass; you usually just have to be vaguely familiar with the material. [/quote]

OP - that is a good point. I have noticed that the drivers education exams for teens are also multiple choice (many all of the above answers) and I wondered whether that is a good indicator of actual knowledge needed to drive safely .

I must say high school was much more memorization and regurgitation when I was young so I loved the leap to thinking critically in college. I can see how that might be a more difficult leap for some who are only doing multiple choice questions in HS.[/quote]

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