Writing Quiz Questions Guidelines

The ability of the item to discriminate or its level of difficulty of the item to discriminate or its level of difficulty should stem from the subject matter rather than from the wording of the ______.

It is advised that the actual number of items to be constructed in the draft the ______ number of items.

Example: what would be the system reliability of a computer system whose slave and peripherals are connected in parallel circuits and each one has a known time to failure probability of ______?

A Table of Specifications ensures that there is that test lower level thinking skills and those test higher order thinking ______.

It is recommended to keep the list of criteria vague and extensive to cover all possibilities.

Criteria descriptions should be brief, complex, and in a random order for students to figure out.

Performance adjectives should clearly explain what performance looks like at each level.

The values assigned for scores in a rubric do not need to make sense in terms of the total points possible.

As a student moves up the performance continuum, new skills are introduced without considering previous level descriptions.

The best and worst performance scores are usually placed in the middle of the continuum.