Editing Standardized test (section)

=== Multiple-choice tests and test formats ===
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[[File:Exams Start... Now.jpg|alt=part of a multiple choice test|thumb|Multiple-choice tests can be standardized or non-standardized tests.]]

A multiple-choice test provides the test taker with questions paired with a pre-determined list of possible answers. It is a type of [[closed-ended question]]. The test taker chooses the correct answer from the list.  

Many critics of standardized testing object to the multiple-choice format, which is commonly used for inexpensive, large-scale testing and which is not suitable for some purposes, such as seeing whether the test taker can write a paragraph.  However, standardized testing can use any test format, including [[Open-ended question|open-ended questions]], so long as all test takers take the same test, under reasonably similar conditions, and get evaluated the same way.