“Multiple-choice questions are a common type of assessment used by teachers in many different subjects. Some educators do not use them, because they judge them as poor-quality assessments; others use them regularly in their everyday practice. I am writing this blog to argue that, since multiple-choice questions are used often in schools, they should be taken seriously, and also to explain why the two main arguments against the use of multiple-choice questions are not convincing.”

http://evidencebased.education/increase-quality-multiple-choice/