I often pose questions in my statistics class that ask about the probability of randomly choosing a correct answer from a list of possible answers on a multiple choice test. I ask the students to ...

This tricky maths quiz will test your knowledge of the subject - and only a 'genius' can score full marks. The 25-question challenge was shared to Playbuzz by US-based creator Terry Stein, who said it ...

Goodbye Play-Doh, hello No. 2 pencils. Because of a tough new curriculum and teacher evaluations, 4- and 5-year-olds are learning how to fill in bubbles on standardized math tests to show how much ...

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 ...

In Teaching TO the Test vs. Teaching the Test, I wrote that there’s nothing wrong with teaching to a test in terms of content, as long as that test is aligned to appropriate, rigorous curriculum. Yet ...

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 ...