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Writing Effective Test Question
Strategies for writing effective test questions
Audience: Faculty, Lecturers, Adjunct Faculty, Teaching Assistants
Description/overview
Online tests are (generally) easy to assign, students to take, and automatically score. The harder part is creating the online test. Good and effective questions can be a challenge to develop. This workshop provides strategies, resources, and practice for designing questions that are fair, unambiguous, appropriate and are aligned with the course/unit objectives.
Learning Goal:
Create effective online test questions, aligned with course/unit objectives.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the advantage/disadvantages of multiple-choice questions
- Contrast the properties of good vs poor questions
- Identify components of multiple-choice questions
- Draft lower and higher order thinking multiple-choice questions
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