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79-412: Although E. L. Thorndike developed an early scientific approach to testing students, it was his assistant Benjamin D. Wood who developed the multiple-choice test. Multiple-choice testing increased in popularity in the mid-20th century when scanners and data-processing machines were developed to check the result. Christopher P. Sole created the first multiple-choice examinations for computers on

158-592: A significant finding), which leads to a problematic bias in the published literature. This can propagate further as literature reviews of claims about support for a hypothesis will themselves be biased if the original literature is contaminated by publication bias. Studies with significant results often do not appear to be superior to studies with a null result with respect to quality of design . However, statistically significant results have been shown to be three times more likely to be published compared to papers with null results. Driving while black refers to

237-481: A Sharp Mz 80 computer in 1982. It was developed to aid people with dyslexia cope with agricultural subjects, as Latin plant names can be difficult to understand and write. Single Best Answer ( SBA or One Best Answer ) is a written examination form of MCQ used extensively in medical education . This form, from which the candidate must choose the best answer, has been distinguished from Single Correct Answer forms, which can produce confusion where more than one of

316-449: A case. The word is often used to refer to preconceived, usually unfavorable, judgments toward people or a person because of gender , political opinion, social class , age , disability , religion , sexuality , race / ethnicity , language , nationality , or other personal characteristics. Prejudice can also refer to unfounded beliefs and may include "any unreasonable attitude that is unusually resistant to rational influence". Ageism

395-472: A distractor is thus often a reaction that probably should be revised in light of a careful consideration of each of the answer choices. Some test takers for some examination subjects might have accurate first instincts about a particular test item, but that does not mean that all test takers should trust their first instinct. Benjamin D. Wood Benjamin DeKalbe Wood (November 10, 1894 – July 6, 1986)

474-418: A feature of the mass media since its birth with the invention of the printing press . The expense of early printing equipment restricted media production to a limited number of people. Historians have found that publishers often served the interests of powerful social groups. Agenda setting describes the capacity of the media to focus on particular stories, if a news item is covered frequently and prominently,

553-410: A given amount of material than would tests requiring written responses. Multiple choice questions lend themselves to the development of objective assessment items, but without author training, questions can be subjective in nature. Because this style of test does not require a teacher to interpret answers, test-takers are graded purely on their selections, creating a lower likelihood of teacher bias in

632-468: A great issue, moreover, since the odds of a student receiving significant marks by guessing are very low when four or more selections are available. Additionally, it is important to note that questions phrased ambiguously may confuse test-takers. It is generally accepted that multiple choice questions allow for only one answer, where the one answer may encapsulate a collection of previous options. However, some test creators are unaware of this and might expect

711-542: A hazard that choices made may be unduly affected by auxiliary interests. Bribery is giving of money, goods or other forms of recompense to in order to influence the recipient's behavior. Bribes can include money (including tips ), goods , rights in action , property , privilege , emolument , gifts , perks , skimming , return favors , discounts , sweetheart deals , kickbacks , funding , donations , campaign contributions , sponsorships , stock options , secret commissions , or promotions . Expectations of when

790-428: A high-stakes interest in the outcome of policy or regulatory decisions can be expected to focus their resources and energies in attempting to gain the policy outcomes they prefer, while members of the public, each with only a tiny individual stake in the outcome, will ignore it altogether. Regulatory capture is a risk to which a regulatory agency is exposed by its very nature. Shilling is deliberately giving spectators

869-502: A history." Self-serving bias is the tendency for cognitive or perceptual processes to be distorted by the individual's need to maintain and enhance self-esteem . It is the propensity to credit accomplishment to our own capacities and endeavors, yet attribute failure to outside factors, to dismiss the legitimacy of negative criticism, concentrate on positive qualities and accomplishments yet disregard flaws and failures. Studies have demonstrated that this bias can affect behavior in

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948-494: A large number of students. This is especially true in the United States and India, where multiple choice tests are the preferred form of high-stakes testing and the sample size of test-takers is large respectively. Another disadvantage of multiple choice tests is possible ambiguity in the examinee's interpretation of the item. Failing to interpret information as the test maker intended can result in an "incorrect" response, even if

1027-412: A monetary transaction is appropriate can differ from place to place. Political campaign contributions in the form of cash are considered criminal acts of bribery in some countries, while in the United States they are legal provided they adhere to election law. Tipping is considered bribery in some societies, but not others. Favoritism, sometimes known as in-group favoritism, or in-group bias, refers to

1106-462: A multiple choice test is a myth worth dispelling. Researchers have found that although some people believe that changing answers is bad, it generally results in a higher test score. The data across twenty separate studies indicate that the percentage of "right to wrong" changes is 20.2%, whereas the percentage of "wrong to right" changes is 57.8%, nearly triple. Changing from "right to wrong" may be more painful and memorable ( Von Restorff effect ), but it

1185-457: A pattern of favoring members of one's in-group over out-group members. This can be expressed in evaluation of others, in allocation of resources, and in many other ways. This has been researched by psychologists , especially social psychologists , and linked to group conflict and prejudice . Cronyism is favoritism of long-standing friends, especially by appointing them to positions of authority, regardless of their qualifications. Nepotism

1264-460: A problem that is in need of a solution. Members of political parties attempt to frame issues in a way that makes a solution favoring their own political leaning appear as the most appropriate course of action for the situation at hand. As understood in social theory , framing is a schema of interpretation , a collection of anecdotes and stereotypes , that individuals rely on to understand and respond to events. People use filters to make sense of

1343-463: A very effective assessment technique. If students are instructed on the way in which the item format works and myths surrounding the tests are corrected, they will perform better on the test. On many assessments, reliability has been shown to improve with larger numbers of items on a test, and with good sampling and care over case specificity, overall test reliability can be further increased. Multiple choice tests often require less time to administer for

1422-413: A way means that true randomization is not achieved, thereby ensuring that the sample obtained is not representative of the population intended to be analyzed. This results in a sample that may be significantly different from the overall population. Bias and prejudice are usually considered to be closely related. Prejudice is prejudgment, or forming an opinion before becoming aware of the relevant facts of

1501-423: Is a + b {\displaystyle a+b} ? In the equation 2 x + 3 = 4 {\displaystyle 2x+3=4} , solve for x . The city known as the "IT Capital of India" is (The correct answers are B, C and A respectively.) A well written multiple-choice question avoids obviously wrong or implausible distractors (such as the non-Indian city of Detroit being included in

1580-444: Is a psychological heuristic that describes the propensity to rely on the first piece of information encountered when making decisions . According to this heuristic , individuals begin with an implicitly suggested reference point (the "anchor") and make adjustments to it to reach their estimate. For example, the initial price offered for a used car sets the standard for the rest of the negotiations , so that prices lower than

1659-583: Is a disproportionate weight in favor of or against an idea or thing, usually in a way that is inaccurate, closed-minded , prejudicial , or unfair. Biases can be innate or learned. People may develop biases for or against an individual, a group, or a belief. In science and engineering, a bias is a systematic error . Statistical bias results from an unfair sampling of a population, or from an estimation process that does not give accurate results on average. The word appears to derive from Old Provençal into Old French biais , "sideways, askance, against

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1738-504: Is a misnomer because many items are not phrased as questions. For example, they can be presented as incomplete statements, analogies, or mathematical equations. Thus, the more general term "item" is a more appropriate label. Items are stored in an item bank . Ideally, the multiple choice question (MCQ) should be asked as a "stem", with plausible options, for example: If a = 1 {\displaystyle a=1} and b = 2 {\displaystyle b=2} , what

1817-510: Is a specific type of confirmation bias , wherein positive sentiments in one area cause questionable or unknown characteristics to be seen positively. If the observer likes one aspect of something, they will have a positive predisposition toward everything about it. A person's appearance has been found to produce a halo effect. The halo effect is also present in the field of brand marketing , affecting perception of companies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The opposite of

1896-422: Is a systematic tendency in the process of data collection, which results in lopsided, misleading results. This can occur in any of a number of ways, in the way the sample is selected, or in the way data are collected. It is a property of a statistical technique or of its results whereby the expected value of the results differs from the true underlying quantitative parameter being estimated . A forecast bias

1975-426: Is a tendency of scholars to cite academic journals with open access —that is, journals that make their full text available on the internet without charge—in their own writing as compared with toll access publications . Scholars can more easily discover and access articles that have their full text on the internet, which increases authors' likelihood of reading, quoting, and citing these articles, this may increase

2054-403: Is autonomous of actual improper actions , it can be found and intentionally defused before corruption , or the appearance of corruption, happens. "A conflict of interest is a set of circumstances that creates a risk that professional judgement or actions regarding a primary interest will be unduly influenced by a secondary interest." It exists if the circumstances are sensibly accepted to present

2133-540: Is broadly called irrationality . However some cognitive biases are taken to be adaptive , and thus may lead to success in the appropriate situation. Furthermore, cognitive biases as an example through education may allow faster choice selection when speedier outcomes for a task are more valuable than precision. Other cognitive biases are a "by-product" of human processing limitations, coming about because of an absence of appropriate mental mechanisms , or just from human limitations in information processing . Anchoring

2212-403: Is commonly referred to regarding its use by law enforcement , and its leading to discrimination against minorities . Victim blaming occurs when the victim of a wrongful act is held at fault for the harm that befell them. The study of victimology seeks to mitigate the perception of victims as responsible. Media bias is the bias or perceived bias of journalists and news producers within

2291-696: Is due to self-selection of conservatives choosing not to pursue academic careers. There is some evidence that perception of classroom bias may be rooted in issues of sexuality , race , class and sex as much or more than in religion . In science research , experimenter bias occurs when experimenter expectancies regarding study results bias the research outcome. Examples of experimenter bias include conscious or unconscious influences on subject behavior including creation of demand characteristics that influence subjects, and altered or selective recording of experimental results themselves . It can also involve asking leading probes and not neutrally redirecting

2370-434: Is favoritism granted to relatives . Lobbying is the attempt to influence choices made by administrators , frequently lawmakers or individuals from administrative agencies . Lobbyists may be among a legislator's constituencies , or not; they may engage in lobbying as a business , or not. Lobbying is often spoken of with contempt , the implication is that people with inordinate socioeconomic power are corrupting

2449-414: Is known as the " gambler's fallacy ". Pareidolia is the visual or auditory form of apophenia. It has been suggested that pareidolia combined with hierophany may have helped ancient societies organize chaos and make the world intelligible. An attribution bias can happen when individuals assess or attempt to discover explanations behind their own and others' behaviors. People make attributions about

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2528-458: Is necessary to ensure the utmost validity and authenticity to the item. The stem ends with a lead-in question explaining how the respondent must answer. In a medical multiple choice items, a lead-in question may ask "What is the most likely diagnosis?" or "What pathogen is the most likely cause?" in reference to a case study that was previously presented. The items of a multiple choice test are often colloquially referred to as "questions," but this

2607-463: Is probably a good idea to change an answer after additional reflection indicates that a better choice could be made. In fact, a person's initial attraction to a particular answer choice could well derive from the surface plausibility that the test writer has intentionally built into a distractor (or incorrect answer choice). Test item writers are instructed to make their distractors plausible yet clearly incorrect. A test taker's first-instinct attraction to

2686-422: Is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs. People also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position. Biased search, interpretation and memory have been invoked to explain attitude polarization (when a disagreement becomes more extreme even though the different parties are exposed to the same evidence), belief perseverance (when beliefs persist after

2765-460: Is that a student who is incapable of answering a particular question can simply select a random answer and still have a chance of receiving a mark for it. If randomly guessing an answer, there is usually a 25 percent chance of getting it correct on a four-answer choice question. It is common practice for students with no time left to give all remaining questions random answers in the hope that they will get at least some of them right. Many exams, such as

2844-423: Is the bias or perceived bias of scholars allowing their beliefs to shape their research and the scientific community . Claims of bias are often linked to claims by conservatives of pervasive bias against political conservatives and religious Christians. Some have argued that these claims are based upon anecdotal evidence which would not reliably indicate systematic bias, and have suggested that this divide

2923-426: Is the limited types of knowledge that can be assessed by multiple choice tests. Multiple choice tests are best adapted for testing well-defined or lower-order skills. Problem-solving and higher-order reasoning skills are better assessed through short-answer and essay tests. However, multiple choice tests are often chosen, not because of the type of knowledge being assessed, but because they are more affordable for testing

3002-450: Is the process whereby an organization monitors its own adherence to legal, ethical, or safety standards, rather than have an outside, independent agency such as a third party entity monitor and enforce those standards. Self-regulation of any group can create a conflict of interest. If any organization, such as a corporation or government bureaucracy, is asked to eliminate unethical behavior within their own group, it may be in their interest in

3081-434: Is the stereotyping and/or discrimination against individuals or groups on the basis of their age. It can be used in reference to prejudicial attitudes towards older people, or towards younger people. Classism is discrimination on the basis of social class . It includes attitudes that benefit the upper class at the expense of the lower class , or vice versa. Lookism is stereotypes , prejudice , and discrimination on

3160-413: Is when there are consistent differences between results and the forecasts of those quantities; that is: forecasts may have an overall tendency to be too high or too low. The observer-expectancy effect is when a researcher's expectations cause them to subconsciously influence the people participating in an experiment. It is usually controlled using a double-blind system , and was an important reason for

3239-742: The American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1928, he met IBM 's leader Thomas J. Watson and joined the company as a consultant; IBM helped Wood to fund the Columbia Statistical Bureau and provided equipment. Their collaboration was also beneficial for IBM, as Wood helped IBM to develop more capable machines. This success led to further academic projects, including the Harvard Mark I , and Columbia invited Watson to join their board of trustees in 1933. In academics, he

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3318-523: The Australian Mathematics Competition and the SAT , have systems in place to negate this, in this case by making it no more beneficial to choose a random answer than to give none. Another system of negating the effects of random selection is formula scoring, in which a score is proportionally reduced based on the number of incorrect responses and the number of possible choices. In this method,

3397-459: The SAT Subject tests remove a quarter point from the test taker's score for an incorrect answer. For advanced items, such as an applied knowledge item, the stem can consist of multiple parts. The stem can include extended or ancillary material such as a vignette , a case study , a graph , a table, or a detailed description which has multiple elements to it. Anything may be included as long as it

3476-508: The impact factor of open access journals relative to journals without open access. The related bias, no abstract available bias (NAA bias) is scholars' tendency to cite journal articles that have an abstract available online more readily than articles that do not. Publication bias is a type of bias with regard to what academic research is likely to be published because of a tendency among researchers and journal editors to prefer some outcomes rather than others (e.g., results showing

3555-441: The law in order to serve their own interests. When people who have a duty to act on behalf of others, such as elected officials with a duty to serve their constituents' interests or more broadly the common good , stand to benefit by shaping the law to serve the interests of some private parties, there is a conflict of interest. This can lead to all sides in a debate looking to sway the issue by means of lobbyists. Self-regulation

3634-438: The mass media in the selection of events, the stories that are reported, and how they are covered. The term generally implies a pervasive or widespread bias violating the standards of journalism , rather than the perspective of an individual journalist or article. The level of media bias in different nations is debated. There are also watchdog groups that report on media bias. Practical limitations to media neutrality include

3713-415: The racial profiling of African American drivers. The phrase implies that a motorist might be pulled over by a police officer, questioned, and searched, because of a racial bias . Racial profiling, or ethnic profiling, is the act of suspecting or targeting a person of a certain race on the basis of racially observed characteristics or behavior, rather than on individual suspicion. Racial profiling

3792-416: The social construction of social phenomena by mass media sources, political or social movements , political leaders , and so on. It is an influence over how people organize, perceive, and communicate about reality . It can be positive or negative, depending on the audience and what kind of information is being presented. For political purposes, framing often presents facts in such a way that implicates

3871-418: The workplace , in interpersonal relationships , playing sports , and in consumer decisions . Status quo bias is an emotional bias ; a preference for the current state of affairs. The current baseline (or status quo) is taken as a reference point, and any change from that baseline is perceived as a loss. Status quo bias should be distinguished from a rational preference for the status quo ante, as when

3950-461: The basis of physical attractiveness , or more generally to people whose appearance matches cultural preferences. Many people make automatic judgments of others based on their physical appearance that influence how they respond to those people. Racism consists of ideologies based on a desire to dominate or a belief in the inferiority of another race. It may also hold that members of different races should be treated differently. Academic bias

4029-435: The causes of their own and others' behaviors; but these attributions do not necessarily precisely reflect reality. Rather than operating as objective perceivers, individuals are inclined to perceptual slips that prompt biased understandings of their social world. When judging others we tend to assume their actions are the result of internal factors such as personality , whereas we tend to assume our own actions arise because of

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4108-420: The current state of affairs is objectively superior to the available alternatives, or when imperfect information is a significant problem. A large body of evidence, however, shows that status quo bias frequently affects human decision-making. A conflict of interest is when a person or association has intersecting interests ( financial , personal , etc.) which could potentially corrupt. The potential conflict

4187-422: The development of double-blind experiments. In epidemiology and empirical research , reporting bias is defined as "selective revealing or suppression of information" of undesirable behavior by subjects or researchers. It refers to a tendency to under-report unexpected or undesirable experimental results, while being more trusting of expected or desirable results. This can propagate, as each instance reinforces

4266-512: The evidence for them is shown to be false), the irrational primacy effect (a greater reliance on information encountered early in a series) and illusory correlation (when people falsely perceive an association between two events or situations). Confirmation biases contribute to overconfidence in personal beliefs and can maintain or strengthen beliefs in the face of contrary evidence. Poor decisions due to these biases have been found in political and organizational contexts. Framing involves

4345-530: The examinee can choose from, with the correct answer called the key and the incorrect answers called distractors . Only one answer may be keyed as correct. This contrasts with multiple response items in which more than one answer may be keyed as correct. Usually, a correct answer earns a set number of points toward the total mark, and an incorrect answer earns nothing. However, tests may also award partial credit for unanswered questions or penalize students for incorrect answers, to discourage guessing. For example,

4424-448: The feeling that one is an energetic autonomous client of a vendor for whom one is working. The effectiveness of shilling relies on crowd psychology to encourage other onlookers or audience members to purchase the goods or services (or accept the ideas being marketed). Shilling is illegal in some places, but legal in others. An example of shilling is paid reviews that give the impression of being autonomous opinions. Statistical bias

4503-439: The grain". Whence comes French biais , "a slant, a slope, an oblique". It seems to have entered English via the game of bowls , where it referred to balls made with a greater weight on one side. Which expanded to the figurative use, "a one-sided tendency of the mind", and, at first especially in law, "undue propensity or prejudice". or ballast , used to lower the centre of gravity of a ship to increase stability and to keep

4582-406: The halo is the horn effect, when "individuals believe (that negative) traits are inter-connected." The term horn effect refers to Devil's horns . It works in a negative direction: if the observer dislikes one aspect of something, they will have a negative predisposition towards other aspects. Both of these bias effects often clash with phrases such as "words mean something" and "Your words have

4661-409: The inability of journalists to report all available stories and facts, the requirement that selected facts be linked into a coherent narrative, government influence including overt and covert censorship , the influence of the owners of the news source, concentration of media ownership , the selection of staff, the preferences of an intended audience , and pressure from advertisers . Bias has been

4740-450: The initial price seem more reasonable even if they are still higher than what the car is worth. Apophenia, also known as patternicity, or agenticity, is the human tendency to perceive meaningful patterns within random data. Apophenia is well documented as a rationalization for gambling. Gamblers may imagine that they see patterns in the numbers which appear in lotteries , card games , or roulette wheels . One manifestation of this

4819-406: The interpretation of average tendencies as well as individual differences. The inclination represents a major issue with self-report questionnaires; of special concern are self-reports of abilities, personalities , sexual behavior , and drug use . Selection bias is the conscious or unconscious bias introduced into a study by the way individuals, groups or data are selected for analysis, if such

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4898-501: The necessity of external circumstances. There are a wide range of sorts of attribution biases, such as the ultimate attribution error , fundamental attribution error , actor-observer bias , and self-serving bias . Examples of attribution bias: Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for , interpret , favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's beliefs or hypotheses while giving disproportionately less attention to information that contradicts it. The effect

4977-399: The possible answers has some validity. The SBA form makes it explicit that more than one answer may have elements that are correct, but that one answer will be superior. Multiple choice items consist of a stem and several alternative answers. The stem is the opening—a problem to be solved, a question asked, or an incomplete statement to be completed. The options are the possible answers that

5056-412: The results. Factors irrelevant to the assessed material (such as handwriting and clarity of presentation) do not come into play in a multiple-choice assessment, and so the candidate is graded purely on their knowledge of the topic. Finally, if test-takers are aware of how to use answer sheets or online examination tick boxes, their responses can be relied upon with clarity. Overall, multiple choice tests are

5135-414: The same, not significantly more or less valuable, probably attached emotionally to different groups and different land. The halo effect and the horn effect are when an observer's overall impression of a person, organization , brand , or product influences their feelings about specifics of that entity's character or properties. The name halo effect is based on the concept of the saint's halo , and

5214-407: The score is reduced by the number of wrong answers divided by the average number of possible answers for all questions in the test, w /( c – 1) where w is the number of wrong responses on the test and c is the average number of possible choices for all questions on the test . All exams scored with the three-parameter model of item response theory also account for guessing. This is usually not

5293-536: The ship from tipping from Port or Starboard. A cognitive bias is a repeating or basic misstep in thinking, assessing, recollecting, or other cognitive processes. That is, a pattern of deviation from standards in judgment, whereby inferences may be created unreasonably. People create their own "subjective social reality " from their own perceptions, their view of the world may dictate their behaviour. Thus, cognitive biases may sometimes lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, or what

5372-452: The short run to eliminate the appearance of unethical behavior, rather than the behavior itself. Regulatory capture is a form of political corruption that can occur when a regulatory agency , created to act in the public interest , instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating. Regulatory capture occurs because groups or individuals with

5451-447: The status quo, and later experimenters justify their own reporting bias by observing that previous experimenters reported different results. Social desirability bias is a bias within social science research where survey respondents can tend to answer questions in a manner that will be viewed positively by others. It can take the form of over-reporting laudable behavior, or under-reporting undesirable behavior. This bias interferes with

5530-414: The strongest predictors of overall student performance compared with other forms of evaluations, such as in-class participation, case exams, written assignments, and simulation games. Prior to the widespread introduction of SBAs into medical education, the typical form of examination was true-false questions. But during the 2000s , educators found that SBAs would be superior. The most serious disadvantage

5609-568: The student to select multiple answers without being given explicit permission, or providing the trailing encapsulation options. Critics like philosopher and education proponent Jacques Derrida , said that while the demand for dispensing and checking basic knowledge is valid, there are other means to respond to this need than resorting to crib sheets . Despite all the shortcomings, the format remains popular because MCQs are easy to create, score and analyse. The theory that students should trust their first instinct and stay with their initial answer on

5688-552: The subject back to the task when they ask for validation or questions. Funding bias refers to the tendency of a scientific study to support the interests of the study's financial sponsor. This phenomenon is recognized sufficiently that researchers undertake studies to examine bias in past published studies. It can be caused by any or all of: a conscious or subconscious sense of obligation of researchers towards their employers, misconduct or malpractice , publication bias , or reporting bias . Full text on net (or FUTON) bias

5767-442: The taker's response is potentially valid. The term "multiple guess" has been used to describe this scenario because test-takers may attempt to guess rather than determine the correct answer. A free response test allows the test taker to make an argument for their viewpoint and potentially receive credit. In addition, even if students have some knowledge of a question, they receive no credit for knowing that information if they select

5846-486: The third example), so that the question makes sense when read with each of the distractors as well as with the correct answer. A more difficult and well-written multiple choice question is as follows: Consider the following: Which of these can be tiled by two-by-one dominoes (with no overlaps or gaps, and every domino contained within the board)? There are several advantages to multiple choice tests. If item writers are well trained and items are quality assured, it can be

5925-478: The world, the choices they then make are influenced by their creation of a frame. Cultural bias is the related phenomenon of interpreting and judging phenomena by standards inherent to one's own culture. Numerous such biases exist, concerning cultural norms for color, location of body parts, mate selection , concepts of justice , linguistic and logical validity, acceptability of evidence , and taboos . Ordinary people may tend to imagine other people as basically

6004-494: The wrong answer and the item is scored dichotomously. However, free response questions may allow an examinee to demonstrate partial understanding of the subject and receive partial credit. Additionally if more questions on a particular subject area or topic are asked to create a larger sample then statistically their level of knowledge for that topic will be reflected more accurately in the number of correct answers and final results. Another disadvantage of multiple choice examinations

6083-720: Was a curator of Stephens College , and the chair or director of 20 national education committees. He was a director of Eastman's teaching film experiment, the American Council of Education test service, and the Commonwealth Fund for research on measurement of achievement in college courses. Wood served on the New York state board of regents' examining board, and on committees for the American Institute of Accountants . Woods retired in 1960 but remained active. In 1969, he

6162-664: Was an American educator , researcher , and director / professor at Columbia University and an expert in the educational field. Wood was born in Brownsville, Texas , on November 10, 1894. He attended the Brownsville area schools , Mission High School , and the University of Texas . Wood was a Phi Beta Kappa and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences , the American Psychological Association , and

6241-814: Was given the Teachers College Medal for Distinguished Service. He received a honorary doctor degree from Union College in New York, from Lawrence College in Wisconsin, and from Colorado State Teachers College . Wood died at the age of 91 of a heart attack on July 8, 1986. Wood established the Elbenwood Fund for Education Research, the Ben D. Wood Fellowship Economic Fund and the Institute for Learning Technologies Fund. Twenty-six students had qualified through 2009. Books published by Wood are: Bias Bias

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