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The MBE consists of 200 multiple-choice questions: 175 scored questions and 25 unscored pretest questions. The pretest questions are indistinguishable from those that are scored, so examinees should answer all questions. The exam is divided into morning and afternoon testing sessions of three hours each, with 100 questions in each session. There are no scheduled breaks during either the morning or afternoon session.
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First, a short description of what I'm after. I would like to design a database flexible enough to store different question types (for example, short response or multiple choice questions), and be able to select any number of those questions to be stored as an exam.
I think storing five columns for each response in the questions table is not a good design. If the number of choices for the question becomes 6 you will have to add one more column. Also, if there are just two choices, the remaining columns will stay empty. So it better be in two separate tables:
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There have many stories published since ChatGPT came out last November about the potential of college students using the AI to write essays, answer exam questions, and otherwise skirt the educational honor system.
After a decade of teaching introductory biology at the college level, I find it more difficult with each passing semester to come up with new ideas for quiz questions each week. So after playing with ChatGPT with my kids and asking it to write stories and songs about hamsters, Fortnite, and John Cena, I decided to ask it if it can write some biology questions for me. The following is what I found out (TLDR: yes, ChatGPT can write some pretty darn good biology questions).
OK check, ChatGPT is knowledgeable of Bloom's. Notice that it used specific tenses of the six Bloom's levels (remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating) so I used those specific verbs when asking it to write questions for me. Next I picked a topic that I would hope it was familiar with (Darwin's theory of natural selection) and asked it write me a Bloom's remembering level multiple choice question.
Goodness gracious, not only can ChatGPT write a multiple choice question, but it tells me the correct answer, and I would definitely classify this as a remembering level question. Moving on to the level of understanding.
Alright, that is a decent understanding question. But now let's really challenge ChatGPT. Applying and analyzing questions usually require students to transfer their knowledge to new situations or scenarios. Let's see how it did.
I almost fell out of my chair when I read these. Not only did ChatGPT up the game and write true application and analysis questions, but it gave novel scenarios for students to assess without being prompted to do so!
Now to the highest two levels, evaluating and creating. Putting aside the argument for a moment that some make that it isn't possible to write these levels of multiple choice questions, let's see how ChatGPT fared.
Well my oh my. ChatGPT definitely worked at higher levels and asked questions that assess students' abilities to evaluate different explanations and to come up with new experimental designs to test a hypothesis. I'm not a fan of "all of the above" options, but I won't nit pick too much now.
So while ChatGPT can write some pretty good multiple choice questions of all six Bloom's levels, it cannot write questions that incorporate figures or drawings, data tables, or graphs from scientific publications, all of which I use to further assess my students' scientific analysis abilities. It also has a hard time writing complex, open-ended, numerical-based problems, of which I use in my chemical engineering courses (but it seems to do a pretty good job at writing straightforward numerical problems, think plug and chug). But text-only multiple choice questions are very commonly used on quizzes and exams in STEM courses (including by me), so now the question has to be asked - should we as instructors use ChatGPT to help us write assessments?
I don't know if I have a strong feeling about this yet, but it sure is tempting to think about. Is using ChatGPT to write questions any different than borrowing old questions from a colleague, using the test bank of questions that comes with your textbook, or googling for questions that are posted online? In all of these cases, you obtain a question that is ready to use, and you may use it verbatim, but you may just as likely edit it to fit your style. So perhaps that is the way to go with ChatGPT - ask it to write you a question and use its response as a foundation to which you edit and make the question more of your own. Or maybe we don't give in to the AI and keep our questions 100% human-generated.
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