In my cognitive class I had students write questions last semester.
My experience was that even with fairly extensive 1-shot in class
training they did very poorly in general--foils tended to be extremely
obvious and overall the items were simple fact based items.
I did get the idea from a TOPS article so you may want to check out
the archives.
annette
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Erica Klein wrote:
> I'm going to try something new this week. On Monday I'm going to ask my
> Intro to I/O students to write some multiple choice test questions and
> bring them on Tuesday. I'll talk about some basic concepts of item writing
> (e.g. what is a good distracter). Then on Tuesday I'll go over the
> questions with the class - we can critique them as items and also review
> the subject matter at the same time. Then I plan to actually use the best
> questions on the multiple choice final exam (90% of the questions will be
> from me and test bank).
>
> Attendance has of course dipped this last week of summer session, I think
> this will be a nice value-added for those students who choose to attend.
>
> Anybody ever try this?
> Erica
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