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"The handy infographic below is a fun look at making useful and targeted multiple choice questions, and while it is fun to look at, it points out a few important tidbits that struck me as being important to remember whether you’re using technology to assess your students or whether you’re doing it the old fashioned way. Keep reading to learn more." 
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There are times when we question who creates the materials for standarized tests...and this is one of them. How about a test that takes a famous Aesop fable, The Tortoise and the Hare' and chooses to substitute a pineapple for the hare?" Would this be an improvement? "Next, the story was used in a standardized reading comprehension test for eighth grade students. The last, and worst part: the test writers came up with a series of 6 comprehension questions, two of which are completely baffling." This post has the entire story from the exam as well as the two questions. It also turns out that Daniel Pinkwater (children's author) wrote the original story as a fractured "fractured fable" but that fable had an eggplant, not a pineapple. You can read Pinkwater's interview about this issue at this link:
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This post explores multiple choice questions, providing some background information that may help you design better questions for assessment. Did you know that (info below quoted from post):
* Questions in a multiple choice assessment are called the “Stem”.
* For each question, there is a key answer, and distractors.
* The distractors should be plausible answers, true statements (when possible) , and about the same length as the key.
Learn more by clicking through to the post!