What is a good multiple-choice question?
How much do you ALREADY know about writing good multiple-choice questions? These 12 questions will help you find out! You'll notice that some questions are about learning objectives because well-written learning objectives are essential for well-written multiple-choice questions.
Select the correct or best answer for each question and then click the SUBMIT button. You'll then receive feedback on which answers are correct and incorrect. Consider printing the feedback page so you will have a record of the answers.
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1. What should be included in the stem of each multiple-choice question? (select the best answer)
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The question to be answered or problem to be solved
Extra details to make guessing the correct answer difficult
A reminder about where this content appeared in instruction
2. Above all else, distractors must be written so they are: (select the best answer)
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Unambiguously correct.
The same length.
Plausible.
3. A valid assessment is one that: (select the correct answer)
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Works consistently.
Measures what it claims to measure.
Correlates with other measures.
4. Is "all of the above" a good answer choice for multiple-choice questions? (select the best answer)
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Research shows that "all of the above" performs well as an answer choice.
Research shows that "all of the above" can sometimes perform well as an answer choice.
Research shows that "all of the above" performs poorly as an answer choice.
5. Is “Describe how to” a good behavior/action to use in a workplace learning objective? (select the best answer)
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“Describe how to” is a measurable behavior/action so it is appropriate to use in a workplace learning objective.
“Describe how to” is rarely part of tasks so this behavior/action is likely written at too low of a level.
“Describe how to” is often part of tasks so this behavior/action is appropriate to use in a workplace learning objective.
6. What is the optimal number of answer choices for a multiple-choice question, according to research? (select the best answer)
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Three
Four
Five
7. Research shows that multiple-choice questions that ask participants to select ALL the correct answers: (select the best answer)
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Don’t perform as well as questions asking participants to select one correct or best answer.
Is a good choice for questions where there are more than one correct answers.
Are better replaced by multiple true/false questions on the same content.
8. A reliable assessment is one that: (select the correct answer)
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Correlates with other measures.
Measures what it claims to measure.
Works consistently.
9. Which of these writing tactics makes multiple-choice questions too easy to guess? (select the best answer)
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Answer choices are of different lengths and depths.
Incorrect answers include common misconceptions.
Incorrect answers are plausible but incorrect.
10. When should learning assessments optimally be chosen and designed? (select the correct answer)
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After the instructional content and activities are finished
After job-focused learning objectives are written
After the instructional content is accepted by stakeholders
11. Well-written learning objectives are needed to write good multiple-choice questions because: (select best correct answer)
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They Identify misconceptions that participants have about the content.
They describe what the content expert thinks participants need to know.
They specifically describe the outcomes needed from instruction.
12. How do we figure out which learning objectives to include? (select the correct answer)
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The job tasks and results that are needed tell us what participants need to learn.
The stakeholder who wants the training tells us what participants need to learn.
The content expert working on the instruction tells us what participants need to learn.
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