Writing and Administering Fair Tests

This article compares writing an assessment to the game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” A lengthy list of components to use, including accessing prior knowledge and choosing good distr... See More

This article compares writing an assessment to the game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” A lengthy list of components to use, including accessing prior knowledge and choosing good distracters are discussed. Although the article is written tongue and check, the analogy to a game show works and is a helpful reminder for planning, developing, and administering fair tests.

Writing and Administering Fair Tests

This article compares writing an assessment to the game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” A lengthy list of components to use, including accessing prior knowledge and choosing good distr... See More

This article compares writing an assessment to the game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” A lengthy list of components to use, including accessing prior knowledge and choosing good distracters are discussed. Although the article is written tongue and check, the analogy to a game show works and is a helpful reminder for planning, developing, and administering fair tests.

Game Show Assessment

The main idea of this "How To" article is assessing students through game show style antics. While the idea was cute - with a lot of references to Regis Philbin - our state and district ide... See More

The main idea of this "How To" article is assessing students through game show style antics. While the idea was cute - with a lot of references to Regis Philbin - our state and district idea of testing has long surpasses short questions and multiple choice answers. Too much time spending to assemble this and I think the assessment data you get in return will be minimal.