5.1 Quality Test Questions
Multiple choice and short answer tests (or quizzes) are useful for assessing students' abilities to recognize and recall content. They are also fairly easy to grade; and when faced with a large class size, you can make the grading automatic depending on the question type.
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Watch/Read
- Faculty Center, Brigham Young University: 14 Rules for Writing Multiple Choice Questions Links to an external site.
- Cynthia J. Brame, Center for Teaching Excellence, Vanderbilt University: Writing Good Multiple Choice Questions Links to an external site.
Diving Deeper
- Faculty Seminars in Online Teaching: Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to Create Multiple-Choice Questions Links to an external site.
- The Teaching Center: University of Florida Handbook on Testing and Grading Download University of Florida Handbook on Testing and Grading
- Canvas Guides: Creating a multiple choice quiz in canvas
- Faculty Seminars in Online Teaching: Effective-Assessment-Examples
- Faculty Innovation Center, The University of Texas at Austin: Multiple Choice Questions Links to an external site.
- Weimer, M. (2016, August 24). Is it Time to Rethink our Exams Links to an external site.. Higher Ed Teaching Strategies.
