Module 3 of 7Lesson 4 of 4~16 min
Write questions that make people learn
A good quiz does more than grade: it helps people learn. This lesson teaches you to write questions that ask learners to apply or judge, with plausible wrong answers and feedback that explains. You also learn to recognize and improve a weak question.
Lesson objective
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to write a formative assessment question at the apply or evaluate level, with distractors drawn from real mistakes and explanatory feedback, and to critique a weak question.
Topics covered
- formative assessment
- multiple-choice questions
- distractors
- learning feedback
Where it fits
Design a course that makes people learn
How should lessons, content and assessments be organized so that learning lasts?
Lessons in this module
- What research knows about learning
- Build the plan of your module
- Choose and produce the content
- Write questions that make people learn (this lesson)
What you will learn in this module
This lesson is part of the course Design and launch an effective online course
- Design the plan of a module that applies research-backed principles (retrieval practice, spacing, worked examples, feedback), with justified formats, durations and checkpoints.
- Write formative assessment questions at the apply, analyze or evaluate level, with distractors drawn from real mistakes and explanatory feedback.
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