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I was recently struck by the ubiquity of multiple choice questions on undergraduate exams. How and why did this form of evaluation come to predominate in higher education? What forms of evaluation did multiple choice testing replace, and was there tension around its widespread adoption?

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I was recently struck by the ubiquity of multiple choice questions on undergraduate exams. How and why did this form of evaluation come to predominate in higher education? What forms of evaluation did multiple choice testing replace, and was there tension around its widespread adoption?	139