Writing Effective Quiz Questions

Using Multiple-Choice Questions to Create Engaging Quizzes and Exams

What you'll learn

Course writers and teachers who write quizzes and exams

Instructional designers who write quizzes and exams

Anyone who wants to learn the best practices for writing effective quiz questions

Requirements

Basic knowledge about course writing, teaching, and instructional design is recommended

Description

As educators, we need to write questions to evaluate the learning performance of our learners. Even our learners want to test their knowledge and comprehension after learning from a new course or curriculum.Thus, quizzes and certification questions are a significant part of the learning experience that you are delivering to your learners. As an educator, course writer, instructional designer, or teacher, you must aim to write effective quiz questions.The most common form of questions used in quizzes and exams is Multiple-Choice Questions or MCQs. From a writer’s perspective, writing good MCQs is a challenging task. To make MCQs engaging and easy-to-answer, you must write them while implementing best practices. However, these best practices are typically ignored, or not available in an easy-to-learn format.This course aims to help you close this gap, so you are enabled to write effective MCQs and add variety to your quizzes or exams by including multiple response questions, matching questions, sequencing, true or false, etc.Thus, the course will help you to:Grasp the meaning of Multiple-Choice Questions or MCQsAnalyze the structure and benefits of MCQsPlan and execute certification examsIdentify authoring tools for writing MCQsDiscuss some useful tips to write effective MCQsIdentify the difference between Summative and Formative assessmentsDiscuss additional question types, which can be used with MCQs in quizzes and examsSharing tips on writing and using MCQs is the key objective of the course. However, what you’ll learn about MCQs can be easily applied to other forms of questions as well. So, enroll now and learn how to keep your learners engaged even in your quizzes.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Why MCQs?

Lecture 3 Process of Creating Effective MCQs

Section 2: Planning for MCQs

Lecture 4 Planning for MCQs

Section 3: Writing MCQs

Lecture 5 Writing MCQs

Lecture 6 Writing Problem or Stem Statements

Lecture 7 Writing Options or Alternatives

Lecture 8 Writing Feedback

Section 4: Advanced Considerations

Lecture 9 Advanced Considerations

Lecture 10 Using Scenarios

Lecture 11 Branching

Lecture 12 Alignment with Objectives

Lecture 13 MCQs in Certification Exams

Lecture 14 Demo: Using the Certification Planning Framework Sheet

Section 5: Tools Overview

Lecture 15 Tools Overview

Section 6: Testing and Reviewing

Lecture 16 Testing and Reviewing

Section 7: Formative and Summative Assessments

Lecture 17 Formative and Summative Assessments

Section 8: Using with Other Forms of Questions

Lecture 18 Tips on Writing with Other Forms of Questions

Section 9: Summary

Lecture 19 Summary

Instructional designers, course writers, curriculum designers, and teachers