Tag: question

  • Checkbox questions (aka “choose-n”) are our second most-popular question type. They are simple and versatile, and you can often replace a whole list of choose-1 questions with a simple choose-n. They also contain a few booby-traps for the

  • Beginners’ guide to Cloze questions

    Cloze or ‘gap fill’ questions are staple of language teaching, but they have many uses. For example: Vocabulary, especially in MFL Word suffix/prefix, e.g. in grammar or for chemical terms Numerical input Knowledge where correct spelling will be rewarded in an exam Where guessing would be too easy in a multiple choice question Yacapaca’s implementation of…

  • Last month we completed our Quiz Builder project. The aim was to make quiz authoring easier, and to increase quality by encouraging authors to choose the highest-quality available questions in preference to writing new ones. Did it work? Here are the monthly statistics for February, compared with the same month last year: February of 2014 2013 Quizzes…

  • We now have an astonishing 288,000 questions in the Yacapaca question bank. Many of them were written by truly talented authors and do a great job of formative assessment. Some questions, unfortunately, weren’t. And don’t. I have now recruited the most brutal critics on the planet to weed out the sub-standard questions: your students.