Professors usually give tests to measure students’ learning. But the act of taking a test can also cause learning, helping students retain and understand material. A new article in the Journal of ...

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With multiple-choice questions, only one of the answers can be correct. If there are four choices, three must be wrong. An answer may be correct because it is precise or because it is vague. An answer ...

Ideally, multiple-choice exams would be random, without patterns of right or wrong answers. However, all tests are written by humans, and human nature makes it impossible for any test to be truly ...