For a Multiple Choice or Multiple Selection question, you will have to enter the Question, Answer, and at least one distractor. You can also enter an Answer Explanation. You may also want to enter a point value, though 1 is automatically entered for you.
Steps to create a New Question
1.If you are not already in an Objectives Hierarchy, then from the Main Menu, select Workbench. Click Design Activities and select Create or Edit Objective Test Items from the Activities list.
2.If there are multiple objective work areas in the project, the Open Objective Work Area dialog box will appear. Select the Project Work Area that you want to open. Then click the OK button.
3.Double-click on an objective in the Objectives Hierarchy for which you want to write test question(s).
a.Alternately you can simply highlight the objective and then right-click in its Questions Linked menu to create a new question.
4.After double-clicking on the objective, select the Questions page of the Properties window. Click the New button and select the type of question you want to create from the pull-down menu.
5.Fill out any relevant information on the General page.
6.Proceed to the Question page.
Multiple Choice Questions
1.Check the "Allow multiple selections" checkbox if you will enter multiple correct answers, or if you want this question to appear as if multiple correct answers are possible.
2.Enter the question into the Question field. As you enter it, it will appear in the Question line at the top of the screen.
3.To enter an Answer, click on the New button in the Choices box. The question stem may (depending on your Preferences) appear in an additional screen, so that you can see the stem while entering the answer and distractors.
4.The panel where you typed in the question will become the Choice field, and you will now type the answer in there. As you do so, the choice will appear in a Choice line at the top of the screen. When you are done typing it in, check the checkbox to mark it as the answer.
5.To add a distractor, click the New button in the Choices box and then enter the text of the distractor in the Choice field. Repeat until all of your distractors have been entered.
6.Check the Point value for the question (VISION enters 1 by default).
7.Enter the Answer Explanation in its own box at the bottom of the screen, if you want one.
When entering the text for the distractor, don’t enter any letters for the distractor choices or any text other than the distractor text alone. VISION will assign the letters to the distractors when the test is generated.
Tips for Creating Multiple Choice Questions
Multiple Selections MC Questions in Tests
Single-selection multiple choice questions can be on the same test as multiple-selection multiple choice questions, but there will be some differences between the two. A single-selection MC question will have round "radio button" selection areas and only allow one choice to be selected at a time, whereas a multiple-selection MC question will have square checkboxes and allow multiple choices to be selected simultaneously.
See more about multiple-selection MC Questions in Multiple Choice Question Overview.
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In the box labeled "Choices" below, the Randomize order on exam radio button is not checked, which means that VISION will use the order that the choices are currently in. In the example below, the answer is in the first choice slot, so it will be labeled "A" on a test. When you establish a position for the answer, the remaining positions are filled by the distractors in the order in which the distractors are listed. So when the answer is not randomly positioned, neither are the distractors. Use the up and down arrows in the "Choices" box to arrange the correct and incorrect choices as you see fit.
The Choices box has significance when you build a test. When the Randomize order on exam radio button is checked (the default) and the question is selected on a test, VISION will list the answer and distractors in a random order. This makes the test more reliable and less vulnerable to compromise.
There are instances where you may not want VISION to randomize the distractors. For example, if one of the distractors reads “all of the above” or “none of the above”’ it would not make much sense to randomize the distractors. You would want to move that distractor down to the bottom of the list of distractors, and assign the correct answer to a different specific location.
If you were to randomize distractors, using “None of the above” as a distractor, you might end up with a question that has “None of the above” as the choice on top of the list, as the example below shows:
1.None of the above 2.Stem 3.Gate 4.Ball |
Multiple choice questions are probably the most commonly used of all question types. They are easy to grade and lend themselves to computer delivery and scoring. However, if they are not well written, they can give away the answer or contain ambiguous or difficult wording. Well-written multiple choice questions have these characteristics:
•Wording in the stem (the actual question part of the question record) is clear and unambiguous. •If a negative is used in the stem or in the choices, it is highlighted for emphasis. •The choices are free of repetitive phrases. •All choices are grammatically consistent with the stem. •Each choice forms a plausible completion of the stem. •All choices have similar grammatical structure and are approximately the same length. •Choices are not synonyms of one another. Opposites are used with caution. •Choices such as "all of the above", or "a and b" are avoided. |
Example
The fission process involves the _____ of atoms by a neutron.
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A.Burning B.Splitting C.Chemical bonding D.Radiation |
A.Burning B.Splitting C.Chemical bonding D.Controlling |
One of the choices, "d. Radiation," is not plausible. It does not fit grammatically.
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All of these choices fit the sentence grammatically.
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