| Date: |
25 Feb 2025 |
Venue: |
Online
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| Time: |
10:00 - 15:00
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| Type: |
Workshop |
Fee: |
£265 (Members - £238.50) |
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Bookings close 24 February 2025 at 10am (UK time)
This workshop is accredited with a Certificate of Attendance for continuing professional development (4.5 CPD hours). To be eligible, you must attend the full day.
This online workshop will help you develop your multiple-choice questions expertise from the essential principles to the latest item design and review strategies in one day.
Throughout the day, you will have opportunities to build on your learning and refine your writing practices. By the end of the workshop you will have developed your knowledge and practical expertise in MCQ design, and be able to analyse, review and write more effective and valid MCQ-based assessments.
The workshops have been designed for anyone responsible for writing questions, developing assessments, or managing the production of tests, examinations, and other assessments. It has been adapted from our popular workshop series which is also running in February.
If you are new to assessment design or have limited experience, this series will give you everything you need to get going. Or if you are more experienced in the field and want to refresh your skills, or are involved in training others in designing MCQs, this series will increase your understanding of the underpinning principles and boost confidence in your practice.
This one day workshop will take you through how to effectively design MCQs in order to take advantage of their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.
- Discover the advantages and disadvantages of using MCQs, and explore how to think about MCQs in the context of the aims of any assessment
- Gain practical skills on how to design MCQs that use the best format to test knowledge and skills validly, reliably and efficiently
- Learn effective ways to evaluate and review the quality of your MCQs, identifying potential issues and improving their quality
In addition to the workshop, you will take away resources to support you in applying the learning to your own context and structuring your future MCQ design process.
Key learning outcomes
By the end of the workshop you will have:
- Gained an understanding of the relationship between the principles of assessment and the design of MCQs
- Learned how to diagnose potential issues with MCQs, improving confidence in your practice
- Developed strategies to improve each stage of your MCQ design process, following analysis that you have conducted, giving you the tools to advance your practice
Course trainer
Dr Simon Child is Head of Assessment Training at the Cambridge Assessment Network. Previously, he was a Senior Research Officer in the Assessment Research and Development Division of Cambridge Assessment. He has conducted research in the field of qualifications reform and development since 2012.
His other research interests include quality of marking processes, curriculum development, formative assessment and Higher Education. His background is in developmental psychology. In 2011, he received his Ph.D from the University of Manchester, which focused on the development of symbolic cognition in pre-school children.