Multiple choice is a form of assessment in which respondents are asked to select the best possible answer out of the choices from a list.[1] The multiple choice format is most frequently used in educational testing, in market research, and in elections, when a person chooses between multiple candidates, parties, or policies.
Although E. L. Thorndike developed an early scientific approach to testing students, it was his assistant Benjamin D. Wood that developed the multiple choice test.[2] Multiple choice testing increased in popularity in the mid-20th century when scanners and data-processing machines were developed to check the results.