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

Extended MCQ

This question style is similar to a multiple answer question in that it allows more than one option to be chosen. Where it differs is that it presents a long list of options. As in the example below it can be used to present a list of equivalent options, e.g. possible investigations. In this example it has been used in conjunction with negative marking. This question is considered to be a way of replacing a traditional short answer question where the student would be required to list all the appropriate investigations.

An extended MCQ