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The Limitations of Multiple Choice Tests


Learn more about the limitations of multiple-choice questions.

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Sprouts makes educational videos about psychology, pedagogy and child development. The short animated videos are aimed to inspire and broaden your knowledge in these areas.

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At school, tests and grades are meant to show our progress towards gaining practical skills or understanding complicated ideas. Unfortunately, they often measure the wrong thing or a limited form of progress.

Albert Einstein said, “Any fool can know. The point is to understand”. And he was right. There is no point in knowing what a solar panel is if we don’t know why it was built or how to install it. Too often, tests focus on the what, rather than the more important questions of how or why.