{"id":167,"date":"2018-10-25T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/?p=167"},"modified":"2025-11-25T10:15:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:15:31","slug":"getting-the-most-out-of-your-multiple-choice-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/2018\/10\/25\/getting-the-most-out-of-your-multiple-choice-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting the Most Out of Your Multiple-Choice Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Grading high-stakes exams is easy \u2026 but building them is an entirely different story<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Effective multiple-choice questions ask students to do more than memorize facts and details \u2014 they engage students at a higher-level of thinking. But while administering and grading high-stakes exams are easy, building them is hard.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/echo360.org\/media\/050dacd4-a2d2-4191-9714-23d45db8f6a7\/public\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Watch this engaging session, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch this engaging session<\/a>&nbsp;focused on providing you with strategies and resources to write multiple-choice questions that assess a student\u2019s ability to apply content knowledge, rather than their ability to memorize facts. You\u2019ll also discover how to use item analysis reporting to determine and increase test effectiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Keynote Speakers<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Teresa Barry Hultquist, PhD, RN, NE-BC, PHCNS-BC, College of Nursing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Karen Honeycutt, MEd, MASCP, MLS(ASCP)CMSMCM, College of Allied Health Professions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sarah McBrien, PhD, College of Allied Health Professions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kendra Schmid, PhD, Academic Affairs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/echo360.org\/media\/050dacd4-a2d2-4191-9714-23d45db8f6a7\/public\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Watch-Recording-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-169\" style=\"width:264px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Watch-Recording-8.png 600w, https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Watch-Recording-8-300x75.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grading high-stakes exams is easy \u2026 but building them is an entirely different story Effective multiple-choice questions ask students to do more than memorize facts and details \u2014 they engage students at a higher-level of thinking. But while administering and grading high-stakes exams are easy, building them is hard.Watch this engaging session&nbsp;focused on providing you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,9,7,1],"tags":[54,69,19,68,56,24,67,70],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classroom-teaching","category-feedback","category-online-teaching","category-teaching-learning","category-uncategorized","tag-assessment","tag-evaluation","tag-faculty-development","tag-iae","tag-learning","tag-teaching","tag-teaching-launchpad","tag-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}