A well-designed quiz can benefit you and your organization by giving you a quick way to evaluate the learner’s progress as well as assess the effectiveness of your training. And well-designed...
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Great article, thanks! I would add one more though...And that's to avoid asking questions in negative format....I.e 'which of the following arent correct'. It ought to be a no-brainer really, but I see this alot in e-learning quizzes and I always have to do a gear change and start concentrating on the syntax of the question and not the content!
Pete, I would normally agree with you, but we need to be careful to specify avoid negative stems in SUMMATIVE assessments. There is actually some good psych of learning literature that shows for FORMATIVE assessments, when they are still learning the material and using the quiz to practice, it may be BETTER to use negative stems because as they read the possible answers, they are saying to themselves "yes, that IS correct about xyz," more times than not, as opposed to positive stem, single correct answer questions, where they are forced to say "No, that is NOT true for xyz." It all depends on how important you feel it is to be able to describe characteristics that ARE part of whatever, or is it more important to know characteristics that are NOT true of whatever....