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influence on instruction: it discourages word-list
memorization.
2) Scoring is easy and consistent.
3) It is a sensitive measure of achievement.
Limitations of multiple-choice completion
1) It is rather difficult to prepare good sentence
contexts that clearly show the meaning of the
word being tested
2) It is easy for the students to cheat by copying what
others have circled.
c. Multiple-choice paraphrase
Multiple-choice paraphrase test of vocabulary items
offer much of the same advantage that multiple-choice
completion test do, and the contexts are much easier to
prepare. Understanding is checked by the student’s
having to choose the best synonym or paraphrase of the
vocabulary item. A sentence context is still used.
However, choosing the right word depends more on
knowing the key vocabulary item than on finding
meaning in the sentence. In fact, the context may simply
show that the item is a noun.
In writing paraphrase items, we follow the same
steps that we took to prepare completion items:
