Home
A Social Learning Community
For Users of Turning Technologies Products and Services
Community Groups
06/21/2009   

writing questions

All Questions are not Created Equal: Writing the Stem

I thought a few suggestions on creating quality multiple choice questions that assess for learning could be useful with our TurningPoint products. I will post these in several parts based on the elements of a multiple choice question. Let's start with some common terminology:

Stem: the question or part to which the student should respond

Options: answer choices

Distractors: incorrect options

Key: correct option

Here are a few best practices for writing the stem:

Syndicate content

Search


User login

Copyright © 2008-2009 Turning Technologies, LLC, Portions Responsive Innovations, LLC and Microsoft Corporation.
All Rights Reserved.