Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
    1. Aims and overview
  2. Section 1: Overall issues in computer assessment delivery
    1. Why use CAA?
    2. Other benefits and issues
  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
    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
    1. Principles for writing good questions
    2. Suggestions for writing good distracters
    3. Matching questions
    4. Suggestions for writing true/false questions
  6. Section 5: Developing online assessments and converting from traditional formats
    1. Designing questions for delivery by computer: 2 case studies
  7. Summary