Worlds_School_Systems_Final.pdf. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition. 1Learning: From Speculation to Science The essence of matter, the origins of the universe, the nature of the human mind—these are the profound questions that have engaged thinkers through the centuries. Until quite recently, understanding the mind—and the thinking and learning that the mind makes possible—has remained an elusive quest, in part because of a lack of powerful research tools. Today, the world is in the midst of an extraordinary outpouring of scientific work on the mind and brain, on the processes of thinking and learning, on the neural processes that occur during thought and learning, and on the development of competence. The revolution in the study of the mind that has occurred in the last three or four decades has important implications for education. What is perhaps currently most striking is the variety of research approaches and techniques that have been developed and ways in which evidence from many different branches of science are beginning to converge.
Writing Multiple-Choice Questions for Higher-level Thinking by Mike Dickinson. “Your best intentions notwithstanding, you don’t really know how well a question is going to perform until you have data to analyze after learners have taken the test.” We eLearning developers are used to the question, “Which is better, eLearning or classroom instruction?” The answer is, “It depends.” It’s the same answer if one asks, “Which are better, multiple-choice or essay questions?” Either question type is useful for assessing a variety of levels of thinking, depending on how well the designer crafts the questions.
Designing multiple-choice questions is not as daunting a task as one might think. What is higher-level thinking? What do we mean by higher-level thinking? EvaluationSynthesisAnalysisApplicationComprehensionKnowledge Bloom’s taxonomy offers one way of looking at increasingly complex cognitive abilities. J. Table 1. It starts with the objectives Before we look at specific techniques, let’s be clear about one thing. Writing higher-order multiple-choice questions Table 2. Learning Solutions Magazine: Home. The Threshold Concept.