Carey Hilgartner
Program Coordinator, Bow Valley College
Google Cloud.
Help. Social Media. Google. On the Same Page. Writing Multiple-Choice Questions for Higher-level Thinking by Mike Dickinson. “Your best intentions notwithstanding, you don’t really know how well a question is going to perform until you have data to analyze after learners have taken the test.”
We eLearning developers are used to the question, “Which is better, eLearning or classroom instruction?” The answer is, “It depends.” It’s the same answer if one asks, “Which are better, multiple-choice or essay questions?” Either question type is useful for assessing a variety of levels of thinking, depending on how well the designer crafts the questions. Designing multiple-choice questions is not as daunting a task as one might think.