Selected-Response Questions (multiple-choice; multiple-select) are deliberately matched to the “unwrapped” Essential Standards and their pre-determined levels of rigor. Selected-response questions include these key components: a question stem, the correct or best answer, three or more distractors (incorrect responses), and a distractor analysis for each question that indicates why an incorrectly selected answer choice is incorrect. Writing a distractor analysis for each selected-response question enables educators to determine correctly and quickly, from incorrect student responses, what instructional adjustments they need to make to close student learning gaps.

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SELECTED-RESPONSE QUESTIONS WITH DISTRACTOR ANALYSES