Subjective merits:
If you want the student to compare and contrast an issue taught during a history lesson,
open ended questions may be the best option to evaluate the student’s understanding
of the subject matter.
If you are seeking to measure the student’s reasoning skills, analysis skills, or general
comprehension of a subject matter, consider selecting primarily multiple choice
questions.
Objective tests are especially well suited to certain types of tasks. Because questions
can be designed to be answered quickly, they allow lecturers to test students on a wide
range of material. … Additionally, statistical analysis on the performance of individual
students, cohorts and questions is possible.
The capacity of objective tests to assess a wide range of learning is often
underestimated. Objective tests are very good at examining recall of facts, knowledge
and application of terms, and questions that require short text or numerical responses.
But a common worry is that objective tests cannot assess learning beyond basic
comprehension.
However, questions that are constructed imaginatively can challenge students and test
higher learning levels. For example, students can be presented with case studies or a
collection of data (such as a set of medical symptoms) and be asked to provide an
analysis by answering a series of questions…
For example, in trigonometry, a question like “Prove this identity” is pretty open-ended.
Proving identities means showing how one trig statement can be modified
mathematically into another. Students can approach the same problem differently,
which means I, as grader, have to be willing to read what they wrote and accept any
valid process. I can’t just expect them to do it the way I envisioned when I put the
problem on the test. This makes it subjective. I have to judge their choices.
But if I modify the question to something like “Prove this identity using the difference of
squares”, then I have narrowed down their choices considerably and it is reasonable for
me to expect the problem to be worked a certain way or ways. This makes it more
objective
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2. These questions are free from the personal factors of the teacher.
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6. It is easy to scoring.
7. Pupils like this type of test item as there is no chance for the teacher
to show personal bias or favoritism.
8. This test items are educative for the pupils as they are more
interested in answering this type of test.
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4. This type of test items isn’t used for the purpose of diagnosing the
learning difficulties of the pupils.
5. It is commonly said that the objective type test items fail to check
cramming.
7. Like essay type of test, this test items also fail to test the character
building aspects.