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

Multiple response

A standard type of Multiple Response, or Multiple Answer question looks like an MCQ except that the student can choose more than one answer. Online, an MCQ will use a radial button, only one of which can be chosen, whereas a Multiple Answer can easily be identified by the check boxes, which allow more than one to be selected.

Multiple Answer questions are often used to elicit from the student all the items that match a particular definition or that conform to a particular condition.

A standard multiple answer question showing feedback