Prelims finally over! I can now stop cramming on making exam questions, and focus on doing stupid things in the computer. Okay, so maybe I still have to check those papers, but still, hard part over. I can't really say I make great exams, but I think it's not so bad. I hate people who make "tamad" exam questions. You know, the type where it's all objective. Memory skills yo! I'm not saying it's bad, I just think for our level, we need more than that because the expectations are higher. I can't really say that I'm an expert in making exams. I'm not. I lack the experience for one. I've only been teaching college for two semesters. But there are some basic tenets that I follow when making one. First thing first, what exactly are your objectives for that grading period. There are different levels of knowledge , which one are you aiming to address? That would basically be the framework of your questions. Then you choose what type of exam would you like to do. The easiest would be identification, enumeration, and matching type. True/false is slightly more difficult to make because you don't want the answers to be so blantantly obvious. For me the hardest is multiple choice. Coming up with questions, in my case, cases/scenarios, is just half the work. There's 4 choices you have to give out. Choices that ought to make them stop and think before randomly picking an answer. There are rules to follow when writing these choices ...
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