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Old Tue May 10, 2016, 12:23pm
illinoisbluezeb illinoisbluezeb is offline
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Originally Posted by SWFLguy View Post
Retired high school teacher here of 32 years. Actually studied test construction in college and put it work work in my career. The True or False items in sports official's tests often end up as reading tests and not a valid test of an official's ability to make correct calls on the field. A well constructed multiple choice test is more reliable/valid. They are not that difficult to construct. In a perfect world, those are the kind of tests we would be taking. See SAT's and such as an example.
So Illinois has done something correctly !!!!
IHSA has been using multiple choice questions for a few years now.
Only 25-30 questions.
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