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How To Write Practice Questions

The document provides guidelines for writing effective practice questions, emphasizing the importance of higher learning and deeper understanding. It suggests avoiding simple questions and offers tips for crafting answer options that challenge knowledge application. Additionally, it includes resources for further reference on developing multiple-choice questions.

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How To Write Practice Questions

The document provides guidelines for writing effective practice questions, emphasizing the importance of higher learning and deeper understanding. It suggests avoiding simple questions and offers tips for crafting answer options that challenge knowledge application. Additionally, it includes resources for further reference on developing multiple-choice questions.

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How to Write Practice Questions

Question tips and prompts:


● Focus on higher learning and deepening understanding of a concept through the
question you are asking
● Think of a scenario you or a colleague has been in and develop a question around
that.
● Look at other past and sample questions in the google drive or online and build a
question based on its format but change the topic.
● Try using a question prompt (check out the links below for ideas)
● Think about Bloom's taxonomy and what you are asking for in the question
● Write questions that are based on the exam format (multiple choice and case
questions)

Things to avoid:
● True and false
● Definition checking questions
● Simple questions that do not focus on deeper understanding

Answer options tips:


● Have one answer be more obviously wrong
● Have two answers be closer together but one is “more” correct
● Have a question about the step in a process and one wrong answer is quoting a step
later in the process than the question is asking for
● Make sure when giving the correct answer to the group that you explain “why” it is
correct and reference the TDbock or other source.

Ask yourself:
● Is this question going beyond knowledge recall and asking for application?
Remember CPTD is application and APTD is more knowledge recall.
● Do your questions and answers reflect the level of certification being tested? Think
about how much experience someone would need to know the answer to the
question, and would that person be eligible for the CPTD or the APTD or neither.
● What sized company or team is this scenario working with? What is the budget?
What is the structure of the company? These will help to shape your scenario
questions as changing those factors would impact the answer to the question.

Types of questions tips:


● For multiple multiple (MM) questions, have between 6-13 options for answers
● For plain multiple choice (MC) questions, have 4 options for answers

Presentation of Questions:
● Use PPT it is the simplest and best results
● Make sure you have the correct answers and why the questions is right and a source
for the answer in your PPT
Other Resources:
● [Link]
center-for-advancing-faculty-excellence/teaching/_documents/
mcq_reading_required.pdf
● [Link]
tips/developing-assignments/assignment-design/designing-multiple-choice-questions
● [Link]
questions-2/
● [Link]
questions/
● [Link]
questions

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