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  • Beginners’ guide to multiple-choice questions

    These are the absolute basic basics of how a “choose-one” type multiple choice question works, for new authors. Here is a typical question: The components are: the STEM (question); typically 4 OPTIONS (aka FOILS), comprising the KEY (the right answer) and 3 DISTRACTORS (the wrong answers). The stem (question). Make sure you

  • Understanding checkbox questions

    John Davies from Kings School in Gütersloh asked me today about the scoring for Checkbox questions. It’s not obvious because the colour-coding in the Detail markbook is simply red or green, leading one to assume that a question would score a simple 1 or 0. But not so. A Checkbox can return a partial mark.…