How many Questions are Enough

Hi Courtney,

That's a great question to discuss. My take is that it's better to focus your assessment questions on what you need learners to take away from your course. You could have a longer course with only a few key takeaways or a shorter course where learners legitimately need to take away a lot of details. Always connecting course length to the number of assessment questions you include wouldn't account for those situations.

Also, the quality of the assessment questions comes into play too. Ten simple memorization questions may not be as effective for measuring what someone will actually do with the information on the job as, for instance, three questions positioned around a real-world scenario.

Finally, it's always worth considering if there are additional components of the learning experience that will also be assessing learner knowledge. Your assessment may need to be more robust for a stand-alone e-learning course than a pre-work e-learning course that's then followed by in-person training.