Writing assessment questions for online delivery: Principles and guidelines

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Section 1: Overall issues in computer assessment delivery
3. Section 2: Choosing an appropriate question style
   1. Multiple choice and variants
   2. Anatomy of a Multiple Choice Question
   3. True or False
   4. Multiple response
   5. True False Don't Know (TFD)
   6. Extended MCQ
   7. Matching and variants
   8. Extended matching
   9. Matching: Ranking/Ordering
   10. Matching: Drag and drop
   11. Free response questions and variants
   12. Cloze tests
4. Section 3: Questions at different learning levels
5. Section 4: Writing effective objective questions
6. Section 5: Developing online assessments and converting from traditional formats
7. Summary

Section 2: Choosing an appropriate question style

This section presents the most commonly used question styles available in CAA systems. It shows examples of these, points out their salient features and offers suggestions for choosing the most appropriate question style.

The vast majority of online question styles are variations of one of three broad types: multiple choice, matching and text/number entry. The following gives examples of the main types of question - can you identify each one?

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Which question style is each of the following? Choose the question style for each question from the pull-down list. . a) Choose... Multiple Answer/Multiple Response Text Entry Matching Multiple choice b) Choose... Multiple Answer/Multiple Response Text Entry Matching Multiple choice c) Choose... Multiple Answer/Multiple Response Text Entry Matching Multiple choice d) Choose... Multiple Answer/Multiple Response Text Entry Matching Multiple choice Yes, all your matches are correctOne or more of your matches are incorrect. Have another go. Don't forget you can click on the example questions to see a full-size version.