Meeting Pattern
Online/Google Classroom
Description
Learn the skills to create and evaluate high-quality multiple-choice questions (MCQs). Learn best practices for writing MCQs, avoid common pitfalls, and engage in activities such as designing MCQs, critiquing and improving existing MCQs, incorporating MCQs into learning activities, and discussing their advantages, disadvantages, and value to stakeholders. Your question writing and assessment development skills will benefit, regardless of your discipline.
Syllabus, Objectives, and Outcomes
Objectives:
You will:
- Develop practical skills for designing MCQs that accurately assess knowledge and skills;
- Evaluate and review the quality of MCQs;
- Understand the advantages and disadvantages of using MCQs;
- Create strategies for improving the design and implementation of MCQs;
- Communicate the value and limitations of MCQs to different stakeholders.
Materials:
Required Student Resources
- Electronic device & internet access.
- Google Classroom account (personal account, not school affiliated).
Text
All materials will be provided by the instructor electronically.
Registration Instructions
Online registration URL closes @ 5:00 p.m. on July 3, 2025.
You will receive an electronic email when you have successfully registered; Please allow 48 hours for your registration to be processed. You will receive access information for online courses prior to the start time.