Hello Jim,
Thank you very much for your insights and your MCQ writing handout.
My students do complain regularly about the volume of reading but I thought since it is a graduate course it was appropriate.
i could probably cut down the length of the reading by 50% quite easily but I don't know if that would be advisable.
Tony
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Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 12:53 PM
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Subject: Re: Help Writing Good MCQs for MBA and Executive MBA Management Courses
Hi Tony
Attached is my MCQ writing handout.
Remember the questions should be at the Table of Content level not the
index level.....big picture, important concepts and definitions
Wow....thatıs a lot of reading....our students complain if we give them 50
pages for 2 weeks
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On 12-05-15 8:53 AM, "Anthony Mento" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Hello,
>I have been using TBL in my MBA and EMBA case-based management courses
>since Sept. 2011. I feel the process leads to more learning and
>interesting discussions than the previous Harvard type class case
>discussion process that I followed. After using a typical case
>discussion approach for the past 30 years, I am very excited with the TBL
>process.
>
>I am having an extremely difficult time writing good MCQs for the RATs.
>My questions tend to be too picky and mostly identification. Is there a
>framework to follow that can provide a systematic approach to writing
>good MCQs? I donıt seem to be getting better over time. I am aware of
>the backward design approach for developing RAT questions but am finding
>it near impossible to implement.
>
>Any guidance would be very much appreciated. For a typical 15 week
>course, I have 5 RATs (20 MCQs each) for 5 modules covering 100-150
>pages /module.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tony Mento
>
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>Dr. Tony Mento
>Loyola University Maryland
>Loyola Graduate Center
>2034 Greenspring Drive
>Timonium, Maryland 21093-4115
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>410.617.1507
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