Flipped Quizzes

Flipped Quiz Assignment Details

Each week, you will create multiple choice questions related to the course material and share them on the class discussion board. All course content is fair game for a question. It is possible that one or more flipped quiz questions will be selected to appear on the tests, so it is in your best interest to create compelling questions and answers and to review your peers’ flipped quizzes.

Requirements

  • Only write multiple choice questions.
  • Each question should have exactly four possible answers.
  • Every question must have only one correct answer (marked in bold).
  • Make all answer options plausible. Do not include almost right or obviously wrong answer choices.
  • Include a detailed statement about where you came across the correct answer (e.g., which reading, lecture slide, class discussion, video, etc. the quiz applies to).
  • Must be an applied or conceptual question.


Question Type Definition
Factual Assess the simplest level of knowledge. They ask the question-taker to demonstrate knowledge of definitions, key events, dates, what occurred, or who was responsible. **Do NOT write factual question types.**
Applied Require the question-taker to apply knowledge about the topic to the problem. The question stem is posed in a different context than the one in which it was originally learned. Using content from course videos and tying them to concepts presented in the readings or lectures are generally applied questions.
Conceptual Conceptual questions ask question-takers to explain why things are the way they are. They ask question-takers to apply the course content to situations not provided in the book or other materials.

Guidelines - Dos

  • Write questions for main concepts. Focus on the big ideas and concepts, rather than trivial details.
  • Use the lectures, videos and readings to apply the concepts. Great questions require the question-taker to use knowledge from the readings and lectures and apply it to current events and culture.
  • Reflect diversity. Vary the names of persons and family assumptions used in the questions.
  • Questions should require specific knowledge of the course material, not general knowledge or personal experience.
  • Write the question stem so it clearly defines the task and the question-taker knows exactly what’s being asked without seeing the response options.
  • Reduce the reading load as much as possible. Avoid repeating words in the option statements by placing these words in the question stem.
  • Make all option statements fit or match the stem. For instance, do not provide verbal clues that point to the correct option or to the elimination of incorrect option(s), such as disagreement between singular or plural, “a” and “an,” etc.

Guideline - Don’ts

  • Do NOT write factual (definition) questions.
  • Avoid using negative words, including in the stem and in the options. Do not use “which of the following is NOT…” constructions.
  • Do not use “all of the above” and “none of the above” as options. And don’t use “both A and B” and options like it.
  • Do not write questions that are dependent on another question or questions that need to be answered in sequence.
  • Avoid any clues within the question or potential answers. Be sensitive to clues that could help a student who did not read the material or attend a lecture be able to answer the item correctly.
  • Avoid using modifiers such as “sometimes,” “never” and “always” in the options.
  • Avoid abbreviations in the question stem and answer.
  • Avoid using a term in the base question and as a potential answer.

This is an example of a factual question that is NOT permissible:

Caution

The outward social expression of someone’s biological sex is

a. sex identity.
b. gender.
c. sex selection.
d. gender oppression.

Instead, you could write a question like this:

Correct

Alex asks people to use female pronouns and dresses in women’s clothes. These social expressions are examples of Alex’s __________.

a. sex identity
b. gender
c. sexual orientation
d. socialization

Grading Rubric

Flipped quizzes that meet all of the following expectations will be graded as “meets expectations” (i.e., awarded full points):

  • Question and answer relates to the course content for the given week (e.g., reading, lectures, slides, discussion, videos).
  • There are exactly four plausible answer options.
  • The answer in bold is the correct right answer.
  • Questions and answers adhere to the “Guideline Dos and Don’ts.”
  • The question is posted in the correct forum.
  • The source of the correct answer is provided.

Credit: Quiz guidelines are adapted from Norton’s guide for writing effective quizzes.