If you want tests that accurately measure what learners know and can do, then you need these rules for writing effective multiple-choice questions.
Are Your Online Tests Valid?
How to Improve Test Validity
To improve the test validity of the assessments you develop, be sure you are measuring what you think you’re measuring.
Writing Multiple Choice Questions For Higher Order Thinking
Use multiple-choice questions to measure critical thinking, such as analysis, evaluation and interpretation. Before and after examples.
The Importance of Writing Effective Distractors
Although writing effective distractors (wrong answer choices) is often difficult, they can play an important role in getting the measurement information you’re seeking. Effective distractors discriminate between those who have achieved the performance objectives and those who have not.
Are Your Online Tests Reliable?
How to Improve Online Assessment
A test that is reliable has few variations within itself and produces similar results over time. Here is how to improve test reliability.
Tips For Writing Matching Format Test Items
Use matching type tests to measure a person’s ability to identify the relationship between corresponding items, like terms and definitions.