“Writing good multiple-choice questions (MCQs) is well studied and well known to be difficult, even for human beings. Decades of research document common flaws: inadvertently giving students cues, implausible distractors, ambiguity, and questions that reward test taking strategies, and allow students to side-step understanding. Large language models (LLMs) make many of the same errors as […]
Every week I send out articles I encounter from around the web. Subject matter ranges from hard knowledge about teaching to research about creativity and cognitive science to stories from other industries that, by analogy, inform what we do as educators. This breadth helps us see our work in new ways.
Readers include teachers, school leaders, university overseers, conference organizers, think tank workers, startup founders, nonprofit leaders, and people who are simply interested in what’s happening in education. They say it helps them keep tabs on what matters most in the conversation surrounding schools, teaching, learning, and more.
– Peter Nilsson