The relationship between Iraqi EFL teachers' creativity and designing multiple-choice questions : a case study of Najaf

Abstract EN

This study aimed to explore the relationship between teachers' creativity and their ability in designing Multiple Choice Questions.

Moreover, it attempted to investigate the relationship between gender and the amount of flaws in designing Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQs).

To this end, 100 EFL Iraqi teachers who were teaching English at high schools of Najaf were randomly selected.

They included 50 male and 50 female.

Creativity questionnaire was given to the EFL teachers to rate their creativity.

Then, they were asked to design at least five (MCQs) about specific passage to discover is there any flaw in designing MCQs, if yes what is the amount of each group (males/females) and the difference between them.

After gathering the data, the researchers calculated the creativity of each person and recorded all required information in SPSS software.

Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used to test the assumption of the normality of the variables.

Pearson Correlation was used to test the correlations between the variables.

The results indicated that there was no significant relationship between the variables.

Moreover, results portrayed that there was no significant relationship between Iraqi EFL teachers' gender and the type of flaws in designing MCQs.

The findings also demonstrated that the role of teacher's creativity has no association with their ability in design flawless MC items.

The findings concluded that there were several problems in the designed MCQs by Iraqi teachers.