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

Exercise to map question to Bloom's level

Try the following activity and match each question to one of Bloom's levels of learning

1

What is this question testing? a) Knowledge b) Comprehension c) Application d) Analysis e) Synthesis f) Evaluation Please select an answerYes that's correct. In order to answer this question students only have to remember the name of the author No, that's not right. It's knowledge because in order to answer this question students only have to remember the name of the authorNo, that's not right. It's knowledge because in order to answer this question students only have to remember the name of the authorNo, that's not right. It's knowledge because in order to answer this question students only have to remember the name of the authorNo, that's not right. It's knowledge because in order to answer this question students only have to remember the name of the authorNo, that's not right. It's knowledge because in order to answer this question students only have to remember the name of the author

2

What is this question testing (assuming it comes from a course on cognitive psychology not on piano tuning)? a) Knowledge b) Comprehension c) Application d) Analysis e) Synthesis f) Evaluation Please select an answerNo, that's not right. In order to answer this question students need to know about the different types of memory systems and how these are used, and apply this knowledge into a context which they have (presumably) not encountered before. No, that's not right. In order to answer this question students need to know about the different types of memory systems and how these are used, and apply this knowledge into a context which they have (presumably) not encountered before.Yes that's correct. In order to answer this question students need to know about the different types of memory systems and how these are used, and apply this knowledge into a context which they have (presumably) not encountered before.No, that's not right. In order to answer this question students need to know about the different types of memory systems and how these are used, and apply this knowledge into a context which they have (presumably) not encountered before.No, that's not right. In order to answer this question students need to know about the different types of memory systems and how these are used, and apply this knowledge into a context which they have (presumably) not encountered before.No, that's not right. In order to answer this question students need to know about the different types of memory systems and how these are used, and apply this knowledge into a context which they have (presumably) not encountered before.