designing-assessments

Read this before generating any quiz, test, task or item — assessment written item-first drifts to recall and produces a score nobody can act on. Use it when asked to build a quiz, test, exam paper, question set, retrieval practice or knowledge check, to write or fix items and distractors, or to judge whether an existing assessment measures what it claims. It produces a blueprint, items whose wrong answers are diagnostic, and a guide to what each result means.