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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: