Utilising a variety of question types has been found to improve student engagement, as well as improve students’ critical thinking (Gamage et al. As an example, when setting up a formative quiz after introducing a new concept, you might choose to use a number of multiple choice and true/false questions to provide a quick ‘check for understanding’ type of quiz whereas, if you were using a quiz as an end of topic summative assessment, a variety of different question types such as multiple choice, short answer and longer essay-style would allow you to create a range of questions to assess student competency against subject learning outcomes. When using a quiz as a formative assessment, you are providing students with the opportunity to practice and apply new learning, whereas when using a quiz as summative assessment, your focus is on assessing student competency and knowledge. The types of questions used in a quiz depends on your pedagogical requirements.
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