Test Questions: Writing Test Questions Well – Part 1 of 3

Very often an organization wants to prove the effectiveness of its training by administering some type of test at the end of the training. Unfortunately, most trainers are not skilled in writing test questions. It is much more than simply writing 20 questions about the content. You can skew the results of the test (and therefore get inaccurate feedback about the effectiveness of the training) if your test questions are not designed correctly.

In this first of three articles on designing appropriate test questions, we will discuss multiple choice questions and how best to design them.