Creating Effective Multiple Choice Questions

Terri Riffe facilitated a session on Creating Effective Multiple Choice Questions for the May 3 Reading Day Showcase.

That session was recorded and can now be viewed online.

Terri Riffe

Terri Riffe of the OIA

View the video of this session here (.wvx format) 1 hour and 8 minutes

During this session participants:

  • Evaluated existing multiple choice items by using commonly accepted criteria
  • Improved poorly-written multiple choice items
  • Constructed well-written multiple choice items that measure objectives.

The PowerPoint that Terri used for this presentation is embedded in the video, and is also available as a pdf.

Terri also provided a link to material on multiple choice question writing mapped to Bloom’s Taxonomy.