Assessment Purpose and Techniques

Assessment and Multiple Choice Questions

• The primary purpose of AssessmentWrite 3 is to support the development of high-quality, standardized tests and assessments.
• Difficult options, also known as distractors, in multiple choice questions are significant because they help to identify partial knowledge, misconceptions, and misunderstandings among test-takers.
• The stem of a multiple choice question should be meaningful by itself, requiring a clear and concise question that can be understood independently of the options, to ensure that the question is not ambiguous or misleading.

Test your knowledge of assessment with questions about its primary purpose, significance of difficult options in multiple choice questions, and the importance of meaningful stems in multiple choice questions.