by Brian Mulligan

2. Tips and Tricks
for
Multiple Choice Quizzes
moocs4all.eu

3. Why choose
“Multiple Choice”
• Multiple choice
• Multiple response
• Short answer
• Hot spot
• Matching

5. Text editor
(e.g. GIFT format)
::Question title – learner does not see this::
Question text (Stem)
{
=A correct answer
~Wrong answer1 (distractor)
~Wrong answer2
~Wrong answer3
~Wrong answer4
}

6. 3 to 5
distractors

7. Let the platform
shuffle answers

8. Avoid
difficult,
easy,
and “trick”
questions!

9. Implausible
distractors

10. “Accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative!”
Which of the following is false?
{
=London is NOT in the UK
~Wrong answer1
~Wrong answer2
}

11. Options should
look similar
{
=A correct answer
~Wrong answer1
~A very longer or more precisely
worded answer will draw attention
to it.
~Wrong answer3
~Wrong answer4
}

12. Be careful
combining options
{
=A
~B
~C
~D
~A and C
}

13. Avoid
“all of the above”
“none of the above”

14. Avoid
clues in the stem
e.g. key words

15. Consider how
learners
misunderstand

16. Draw questions
randomly from
“banks”

17. Multiple versions
of the same
question?

18. Spread questions
evenly over the
content

19. Grammar:
- correct
- similar

20. Second
reader