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 ...

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 ...

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In an excellent column, Ray Schroeder, senior fellow for the Association of Leaders in Online and Professional Education, laments the tendency for many instructors to rely on text-specific test banks ...

Whether it's an entrance exam for college, grad school, law school, med school, or just an in-class quiz in college or high school, there are a few simple tools that psychology can offer you to help ...