Take Our Quiz on Writing Good Test Questions
Posted by Howard Eisenberg
Questionmark Live has made it easier than ever for subject matter experts to write test questions. But since we’ve always thought that providing good learning resources is just as important as creating great testing and assessment software, we’ve put together this 11-question quiz to help anyone — SMEs included — brush up on their item writing skills and review best practices.
The quiz is based on research literature including Criterion-referenced Test Development by Sharon Shrock and Bill Coscarelli and Validating Multiple-Choice Tests Items by Thomas M. Haladyna. So the guidelines it offers relate to criterion-referenced rather than norm-referenced score interpretations. Different domains might require different approaches. We regard resources like this quiz as a way of contributing to the ongoing process of learning about assessment. In that spirit, we welcome your suggestions and would be happy to modify our current learning resources and/or create new ones to address the needs of other domains.
Now on to the quiz! Be sure to look for your feedback after you have completed it!
Good test! I scored 100%
Thanks, Stefanie. Good to know that we agree on this subject.
Howard,
Nice little test. Fun to take.
I’ll give you access to some of mine these days.
Only 9 out of 11 – grrrr!
You might like to see our fun quiz on how to write good questions:
http://formative.glam.ac.uk/q4/open.dll?SESSION=6329027683080603&NAME=QMPTrainer2&GROUP=QMPTraining
Very clever, David. Thanks for sharing. Shrock and Coscarelli developed something just like this and distributed it to the room at our most recent user’s conference. You should have seen the look on some people’s faces! Thanks for sharing. -Howard
Thanks for sharing this. I got 100% I feel validated! Yeah!
10/11 hhmmmmm…
Maybe QMP should automatically test the questions against these when they are entered!
I got 9/11 correct. For the first question, my answer was True. I believe there should be enough distracters. In many cases, we provide two attempts to the learners if scoring is not required. In those cases, providing only three options would not be a good idea.
Then, in question number 11, the version 1 is better because the options are in continuity with the question stem. Whereas in version 2, the first two choices do not fit in the question and ruled out. They do not look like definitions and hence not good distracters.
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