Factors Affecting Students' Guesswork in Multiple Choice Questions and Corrective Strategies

One of the main concerns of those in charge of education and evaluation in universities is the issue of students guessing the answer in multiple-choice questions. This is concerning because a student who guesses the correct answer may lack the required knowledge. The results of various studies show that students use guessing to different extents. Factors of personality, gender, cultural differences, and cognitive level of questions, situation, test conditions, and test-takers affect students' guessing. Using multiple-choice questions, reducing the structural errors of the question, increasing the number of options, adding the ‘I do not know’ option, using a negative score, using the confidence assessment model, eliminating the option, and the liberal method have been suggested as solutions to deal with guessing answers in multiple-choice questions.

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Effective Factors , guessing , multiple choice questions , Student , Solutions