Summary

This site has presented you with information and examples designed to help you construct more effective quiz questions and to select appropriate question types for your needs. Each question type has advantages and disadvantages along with pitfalls that should be avoided. Including a variety of question types in your quizzes will allow you to assess all levels of student learning. Thoughtful planning, alignment with objectives, and careful writing are paramount to creating effective quiz questions that challenge your students. Employing questions that have the potential to measure higher-order thinking skills is key to increasing the rigor of quiz questions, and evaluating the reliability and validity of your quizzes is important for overall quality and for developing useful metrics about your students' performance. Optimizing your quiz questions for accessibility will ensure you have created an inclusive learning environment.

Achnowledgements

I would like to acknowledge the following Penn State units and their personnel  for their help in creating the content in this site:

• IT learning and Development
• The Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence
• Teaching and Learning with Technology