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Clear and structured organisation of questions allows not only fast access to your questionbank for yourself but sharing with your colleagues and as well as effective reusing for many years.

Questionbanking also allows generation of automatic, balanced, and different exam, containing different types of questions, covering the entire curriculum, and displaying gradually from easiness to difficulty.

We recommend:

• Use Topics with clear and meaningful naming to group your question together
• Use Metatags to mark difficulty level, retire questions or any other criteria
• Consider using different question types for your assessment

When used to their full potential, the question types available in QMP provide a powerful range of assessment techniques that you can use to test a full range of cognitive skills, including:

• Factual recall
• Comprehension
• Application
• Analysis
• Synthesis
• Evaluation

These question types can also be used to collect survey information or construct rating scales.

Things you might do when creating your questions or topics:

• Read the descriptions for all the question types available in Authoring to gain background knowledge of your options in developing assessments from topics.
• Select question types based on the format that best matches what you want to assess.

For example, If you want to measure skills or content, then you would select from the question types which test designers loosely categorize as closed-ended or open-ended based on whether or not the answer appears before the participant.

Tips for Creating Effective Questions

1. Explore All Question Types: Review available question types in QMP’s Authoring tool to see what best suits your needs.
2. Select Based on Goal:
   • Closed-Ended: Choose for predictable answers (like True/False, Multiple Choice).
   • Open-Ended: Use for responses needing explanation (like Essay, Text Match).
3. Align with Real-World Application: Design questions that closely mirror practical applications to make assessments more relevant.
4. Limit Types for Clarity: Group similar question types together to reduce participant confusion, starting with Multiple Choice for ease of scoring and feedback.
5. For Ratings or Opinions: Use Likert Scale questions to gauge attitudes or preferences.

Question Type Overview

• Closed-Ended Question Types
  • True/False
  • Yes/No
  • Multiple Choice / Multiple response
  • Pull down list
  • Likert Scale
  • Numeric
• Open-Ended Question Types
  • Text Match
  • Essay
  • Matching
  • Explanation

By organizing your question bank and selecting appropriate question types, you create a versatile and effective assessment tool for all learning objectives.