Assessing Chapter 6

This chapter was about how to write good test questions. It is most important to make sure that the question is posed in a manner that is clearly understood by the student. The chapter also talked about how to make questions that don’t give away the answers. It also talked about adding a little humor to the test through jokes or puns or just ridiculous answers on multiple choice questions.

We thought that this chapter was very useful. Although some things seemed like common sense the tips were really helpful. We thought that the part about how to make questions to the point without playing “mind games” as Meredith described them was important. We have all had teachers who have written questions that were worded in a way that made no sense so we could only guess as to what the answer they wanted was.