10 types of Multiple Choice Questions | Infographic by Acadly
Learn how to create quizzes that engage and challenge your students
Creating quizzes is a skill that takes time and experience to perfect. It is famously easy to create questions that test lower-order thinking — think facts and figures. While such questions are not purposeless by any means, it is important to incorporate questions that test higher order thinking as well.
A common misconception is that multiple choice questions (MCQs) aren’t a good way to test higher-order thinking. A probable reason for this is that the top of the Bloom’s Taxonomy is occupied by a form of learning that perhaps cannot be tested by MCQs: learning by creating.
But the levels below — evaluating, analyzing, applying — are all perfectly testable with objective quizzes, and they’re all meant to evaluate higher-order thinking as well.
Here are 10 types of MCQs you can think of incorporating into your next quiz to make an impactful assessment.
Hope you enjoyed reading the infographic and thought of ways to use some of these question types in your next quiz!
The credit for the concepts described here goes the the Robert Gillespie Academic Skills Center, University of Toronto. Here’s the original paper if you’d like to read it. For more teaching infographics, do check out the rest of the Acadly blog.
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