Posts about: Multiple-choice exams

Multiple-choice exams favour boys over girls, worsening the maths gender gap

Multiple-choice exams favour boys over girls, worsening the maths gender gap

  Boys perform better than girls in tests made up of multiple-choice questions. Multiple-choice questions are considered objective and easy to mark. But my research shows they give an advantage to males. I compared around 500,000 test results of boys and girls who sat the same international test, but whose exam papers differed by detail (although not […]…