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Planning your interactions

Posted on 09.21.18

The Learning and Training specialization Lesson 4: Elements for questions and responses Planning your interactions
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Here are a few things to keep in mind when writing assessment questions in the L&T specialization:

  • Use the objectives in your lesson or course as a starting point. This will help you write questions that test whether the student achieved the learning goals you intended.
  • Avoid creating assessments that depend on other assessments. Questions can be displayed in a random order in your output. Therefore, writing a question that builds on a previous question is not practical.
  • Just as the order of questions can be randomized, so can the order of the answer choices. Therefore, it’s best to use a multi-select interaction type rather than a single-select with an “all of the above” answer choice, for example. If the order of your answer choices is important, see if that question might work best as a sequencing interaction type.
  • When choosing an interaction type to frame your question, think about what you want students to prove they know. True/false or single-select interactions typically work best for testing their knowledge of facts, while matching or sequencing interactions may work better for testing their understanding of more complex concepts.
Contributors
  • Simon Bate, Scriptorium
  • Gretyl Kinsey, Scriptorium
  • Kaitlyn Heath, Scriptorium
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