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Writing assessment questions for online delivery: Principles and guidelines
Table of Contents
Introduction
Aims and overview
Section 1: Overall issues in computer assessment delivery
Why use CAA?
Other benefits and issues
Section 2: Choosing an appropriate question style
Multiple choice and variants
Anatomy of a Multiple Choice Question
True or False
Multiple response
True False Don't Know (TFD)
Extended MCQ
Matching and variants
Extended matching
Matching: Ranking/Ordering
Matching: Drag and drop
Free response questions and variants
Cloze tests
Section 3: Questions at different learning levels
Introduce verbs related to each level
Exercise to map question to Bloom's level
Examples of question styles that can be used to address higher levels
Example 2: Data Analysis Question
Section 4: Writing effective objective questions
Principles for writing good questions
Suggestions for writing good distracters
Matching questions
Suggestions for writing true/false questions
Section 5: Developing online assessments and converting from traditional formats
Designing questions for delivery by computer: 2 case studies
Summary