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
   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
5. Section 4: Writing effective objective questions
6. Section 5: Developing online assessments and converting from traditional formats
7. Summary

True or False

A True or False question is similar in format to a multiple choice question, except that there are only 2 options, True or False, for example.

A True/False question

True/False questions are quite popular because they are generally easy to write; one does not have to think of lots of plausible but incorrect answers as with an MCQ. However one has to be a little careful with them: a true/false question should contain only a single statement and be one that is either clearly true or false.

It is also arguable that they are unsuitable for summative assessment because the student would score 50% simply by answering at random.