Test Writing Pt. 1: Thinking Through Good Question Design ä

Assessing student learning through homework, quizzes, exams, or polling using publisher question banks may seem time efficient, but developing your own questions can more effectively address your desired learning objectives as well as better support academic integrity. You can pose questions at different levels of challenge to encourage deeper learning among students and create meaningful distractors to motivate students to apply concepts to determine the best answer. In this session, we'll discuss productive approaches and common pitfalls to writing multiple-choice questions that encourage learning. Panelists include Sarah Leupen (Biological Sciences) and Cody Goolsby-Cole (Physics). The follow-up session will discuss current and future ideas for setting up question pools in Blackboard and will be led by panelists Tara Carpenter and Sarah Bass (Chemistry and Biochemistry).

This series is co-hosted by the FDC and Instructional Technology.