Hi,
welcome back.
Today we're going to talk about multiple choice question writing.
But before we talk about assessments, I want to just review for a
moment the idea that we need to put the whole picture together.
So our intended learning outcomes; what we're trying to
teach and how we're actually going to assess it.
So just as a reminder I want to talk, just
for a moment about how we should blueprint our curriculum.
And then switch to an assessment.
Specifically multiple-choice questions.
The rest of this module, we'll talk about other
forms of assessments and those will be in separate videos.
And then the challenge will be to
construct multiple-choice questions to assess higher-order learning.
So those are the goals of this session for you.
So people always say, so you want to teach.
and it, it can be a very
[LAUGH]
daunting task case in point, right here.
but really, when you're trying to teach something,
there's lots of questions that you need to ask.
So you need to ask, what are you going to teach?
And where might you teach it?
Whom is the learner, how are they going to learn, but most
importantly, after you've done all of the instruction and everything else.
How will you know that they actually learned
what it is you set them out to learn.
So one way to try to know
where you're heading is to create something called a curriculum blueprint.
Just like you might do a blueprint for a building you're trying to build.
So I always say to start backwards.
So you define your intended learning outcomes before you start.
And that's why you'll see in these videos I always start with
ILOs, as well as online, the sessions always start with the ILOs.
So we can always keep track of where
we're headed. Okay.
Once you know where you're headed, then you can
figure out why you're doing it, and what to do.
So the first question is, well, really who cares what you're trying to teach.
And so, you may want to consider doing a needs assessment.
Is this something that people want to learn or need to learn?
And then the important thing is to also define your learner.
Are we talking about novices? Are we talking about experts?
Are we talking about a global audience?
that helps define which way you want your curriculum to go.
And then again the most important piece for this session and that what
we're doing in this whole course is what teaching tools will you use.
So my favorite, sort of illiteration, is to pick a
pedagogy and you want that pedagogy to match your intended outcomes.
But first you have to think about well, okay, I'm going to teach something.
And I'm going to try and measure their success, but how do I do that?
So while, we will I promise get to pedagogies and specifically what
you can use in which situation, we need to talk just a minute about assessments.
Which is why this module is going to be about multiple choice questions.