How to Design Quizzes

The process of designing quizzes is a struggling process. It is quite difficult to prioritize the distribution of quizzes related to a particular topic. It requires exposure to the subject and experience to design the quizzes. Here, we will guide you to make the designing process effortless.

Step 1: Define the Quiz Type

The process of drafting the quiz is quite difficult. It is similar to designing a course. The initial step is defining an objective. What do you want to teach the students? What do you want them to know about the subject? Draft the quiz as per the answer you get for these questions. Usually, quizzes are divided into two categories as per the purpose:

Assessment Quizzes

These quizzes have no explanation of the solution and are time-based. The students who already learned a particular subject are expected to attempt this quiz for the same subject. The aim of this quiz is to check the knowledge. It checks the knowledge of students accurately. This type of quizzes is attempted by a student who has achieved an intermediate level of expertise and is looking forward to excelling in the corresponding subject. 

Reinforcement Quizzes

There is no time limit but they are divided into modules. It intends to broaden the base of knowledge. They are drafted along with explanations and no negative marking is penalized for wrong answers. 

Step 2: Decide the Types of Quiz Questions

Our expert writers have numerous types of questions for quizzes. Here the details of the same:

1. Multiple Choice— in this type of question, students are asked to select one option among 4 choices. To increase the difficulty level you can provide 5 or 6 options.
2. Multiple choice with more than one correct option— there are questions who have multiple correct options. These questions require an advanced level of proficiency to address.
3. True/False— the students have to decide whether the given statement is right or wrong. It is the simplest type of question.
4. Matching— here, two columns are given with all of their combinations in option. The students have to select the option with all correct combinations.
5. Numeric— these kinds of questions are suitable for the question which involves calculation. The learner has to type a numeric value to answer the question.

High Quality Assignment Help writer prefers to maintain a 40/60 ratio i.e. 40% of multiple-choice questions and 60% of all other kinds of questions.

Step 3: Structure and Wordings of Questions

The effectiveness of questions relies on how well the questions are framed and the selection of words. It is important to specify all the information otherwise students will answer it randomly in case of missing information. This will deteriorate their score and lead to inaccurate assessments.

Step 4. Write the options

This is the trickiest part of drafting quizzes. You need to have good writing skills to confuse the students. Your aim is to distract the students and let them struggle to get the right answer hence we use distractors. Here are the tips to write the best options for quizzes:

• Don’t write too long options. Keep it short and brief.
• Keep the distractors and answers of the same length and structure. Inconsistency in grammar and language will hint learners for the right option.
• Make sure that the answers are absolutely correct and other options are wrong. Don’t provide ambiguous options.
• Avoid repetitive use of options like “none of the above” and “all of these”.
• Write closely related options for advanced levels of a quiz.
• For calculative questions, the value of distractor has to be near to answer in case of an advanced level of questions.

Step 5. Characteristics of Quiz

The characteristics of a quiz depend on the predetermined goal. The more clear will be the goal, more apt will be the quiz. Let’s discuss the characteristics of quizzes.

Passing Marks

The minimum marks to be scored in quiz for passing depends on difficulty level, the purpose of quiz and subject. If the quiz is related to medicine then you can set 80-90% as passing marks because it involves the risk of life. If the purpose of quizzes is to impart knowledge then 35-50% is enough to pass.

Time Limit

This is primarily proportional to the number of questions asked and the difficulty level. Even easy questions resemble tough when time is scarce so set the time limit wisely.  

Distribution of Questions

To avoid copying, our writers advise you to set questions in a unique order. This will minimize the chances of cheating.