best practices

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:

• An Empirical Investigation Of Electronic Student Response Systems In A K-12 School District: The Relationship Of Ongoing Assessment On Student Achievement Author: Dr. Tina Sartori, Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Pepperdine University
• Integrating The Use Of Classroom Performance Systems In The Elementary Classroom Author: Nicole R. Thomsen