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
4. Section 3: Questions at different learning levels
   1. Introduce verbs related to each level
   2. Exercise to map question to Bloom's level
   3. Examples of question styles that can be used to address higher levels
   4. Example 2: Data Analysis Question
5. Section 4: Writing effective objective questions
6. Section 5: Developing online assessments and converting from traditional formats
7. Summary

Introduce verbs related to each level

The table below illustrates a list of verbs related to Bloom's levels of learning that can be a valuable reference in the developing stage of a question. The verbs can help to design a set of questions aiming to assess students' skills from a lower-order to a higher-order of critical thinking.

Take a look at the verbs and then move to the next section to find out more about matching questions to the Bloom's taxonomy.