This chapter focuses primarily on how, as teachers, we can create good test questions that correctly assess and challenge students. The chapter addresses the different types of questions that teachers can use on tests, including multiple choice, true/false, essay questions, matching, short answers and others. These are considering the “traditional” test questions that are used in multiple different content areas and are most commonly used. The chapter also talks about more “nontraditional” questions that teachers can use, like asking students to draw pictures, make diagrams, analyzing examples and using real world examples. The chapter suggests that in order to make the most successful test questions, teachers combine the use of so called traditional and nontraditional test questions, in order to make students more engaged with the test and provide more options for students to display their skills and mastery.
The chapter also talks about how another successful way to administer a test is to make sure that students get immediate feedback on their results. This can be accomplished by having students make two copies of their answers and then go over the answers after the test, with teachers having one copy of answers and students being able to correct their own copies. The only problem with this method, is that students would have no way to correct an essay question, so they would still have to wait for feedback on those questions.
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