Designing and Managing MCQs:

CONTENTS

1. Purpose of this handbook.

   1.1 This handbook is designed to...

   1.2 Experience of MCQs in departments at UCT

   1.3 The Technology-Assisted Testing (TAT) programme

2. What are Multiple Choice Questions?

   2.1 Definition.

   2.2 Advantages of Multiple Choice Questions.

   2.3 Problems associated with Multiple Choice Questions.

   2.4 The multiple uses of Multiple Choice Question tests.

   2.5 Managing the use of MCQs at departmental and course team level

3. Some selected examples of Multiple Choice Questions.

   3.1 Philosophy of Education (First year B.Ed. course)

   3.2 Sociology (First year course)

   3.3 Economics (First year course)

4. Scoring and statistics.

   4.1 Negative marking. To use or not to use?

   4.2 Applying negative marking to each question.

   4.3 Applying negative marking to the entire test.

   4.4 The percentage score.

   4.5 Adjustment of final percentages.

   4.6 Question attributes.

• Appendix A: Where to get help.
• Appendix B: Designing MCQs- Do's and don'ts.
• Appendix C: Multiple Choice questions and Bloom's Taxonomy.
• Appendix D: Health Sciences Question Mark Guidelines
• Appendix E : List of External Users and references to this Handbook