SELECTED-RESPONSE QUESTIONS WITH DISTRACTOR ANALYSES +
About the Selected-Response Assessment Questions Workshop
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 individual students’ learning gaps.
Prerequisite Informational Session:
Assessment Literacy to Create Quality Assessments
Participants need to attend the Assessment Literacy one-hour informational session as necessary preparation for attending either the Selected-Response Assessment workshop and/or the Constructed-Response Assessment workshop. The introductory session can be combined with either of these two workshops.
Recommended Preparatory Workshop:
“Unwrap” the Essential Standards for Teacher Clarity
Participants in this Selected-Response Assessment Questions Workshop will benefit from first experiencing how to “unwrap” Essential Standards as preparation for creating or selecting quality assessment questions directly aligned to the rigor, concepts, and skills of “unwrapped” Essential Standards.
What You Will Experience and Create Through Explanation, Examples, and Practice
- See the “Big Picture” of the Integrated Teaching & Learning System©
- How to Write Selected-Response (Multiple-Choice) Questions:
- Match to Rigor of “Unwrapped” Essential Standards
- Include Key Elements of Quality
- The Selected-Response Format: Benefits and Drawbacks
- Roadblocks To Effective Item Writing
- Guidelines For Writing Multiple-Choice Questions
- See Educator-Created and A.I.-Generated Examples of Selected-Response Assessment Questions with Distractor Analyses in Multiple Content Areas
- Activity: Write Multiple-Choice Question(s) Aligned to Standard and Rigor with Distractor Analysis
- Align Selected-Response Questions to Formats (Multiple-Select, “Drag and Drop”) and Vocabulary of State Assessments
Virtual Session: Two Hours
Who Should Attend
District and School Leaders, Grades 2-12 Classroom Educators, Content Area Coordinators and Specialists, Instructional Coaches
For More Information
VOLUME TWO: CREATING THE END-OF-UNIT ASSESSMENT
CHAPTER 10: Develop Selected-Response Questions with Distractor Analyses
What Participants Are Saying About the Selected-Response Assessment Virtual Workshop
“Even if teachers cannot create assessment questions (and only select them), the distractor analysis would be very beneficial in helping them choose questions aligned to the standard in rigor and content.”
“(The distractor analysis) will help me catch students’ misconceptions.”
“Helpful process.”
“Not just what the student needs to do differently but what should the teacher instruct differently based on data from the assessment.”