An Initiative in Making Tests for Statistics Lessons
Keywords:
Excel software, Descriptive Statistics, Mail Merge, Mean, Multiple Choice, Test, WORD softwareAbstract
This article intends to provide an innovative way in multiple choice items to be in accordance with the standards of testing for statistics lessons. Tests are an essential part of learning process and the quality of the test content is always one of the concerns of teachers and academics. The proposed method in this article makes use of the tools available in WORD software and the mail merge section, Advantages of this technique include: (1) uniqueness, (2) being error free and (3) random positioning of options.
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