The muitiple choice system and the education of librarianship

Abstract

Conventional methods of education are more and more replaced by methods of illustrative demonstrations and objective-indirect recitations. One of the latter ones is the examination by multiple choice having the following adventages:
1. Objectiveness (everbody gets the same questions);
2. Judgement is made mechanically, using pre-fabricated models so subjectivity of examiners is eliminated;
3. Test forms include the whole examination material, not only its part by chance, as in the case of oral examinations;
4. Candidates are rendering what they have to know and not what they have to say about the subject;
5. It makes accustomed to thinking, application. It instructs to distinguish alight differencies.
Six types of question-answering multiple choice are presented by examples on librarianahip. Monotony in education of librarianship could have also advantages because apparent identities of the first seconds are proper differencies. So the knowledge becomes more precise and - on the other hand - better proved by the examinees. Multiple choice questions on librarianship were elaborated but still many corrections and experiments are needed.