Multiple choice questions are often frowned on as an assessment tool in higher education. But when well constructed, they offer a clear and transparent way of evaluating student progress, as Anthony ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education's new format for first term board exams for classes 10 and 12, including 90 minutes long objective type tests, has been hailed by several school principals who ...

Meandering into the lecture hall, you take note of the atmosphere. The air is still. But for the faint sounds of shuffling pages, trackpad clicks, and anxiety-laced whispering, the room is silent. You ...

A mix of objective and lengthy questions might be asked in university and college exams in Uttar Pradesh to simplify evaluation of answer sheets A number of interesting decisions were taken at the ...

THIS is apropos of Mohammad Azeem's letter on the subject (Oct 15). I fully agree with him that the purpose of an examination should be to test the understanding and concept of the subject and not ...

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 ...

A decision on the format of the IIT’s joint entrance examination (JEE)-Advanced has been made. The joint admission board (JAB) of IITs has decided that the JEE-Advanced paper will have only ...