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Flexible Assessment Question Types Overview

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Ann Stefano
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This lesson reviews the variety of Item or Question Types available when creating and managing a Flex Assessment answer key.

Implementation Tip! Consider how you will train and guide users to access their data using our new Flex Assessment Overview and how this may differ from their use of our Itembank and Manual/Hybrid Assessment Overview page utilization. Pilot groups and early adopters may be the best audience for this new FLEX assessment.

While these assessments are flexible, they are also new as of June 29, 2018. Please be advised that in comparison to our older Manual/Hybrid Assessments, this new assessment type at this time cannot do the following:

  • Create Versions or multiple answer keys in single assessment
  • Configure Locked or Protected Features
Flex Assessment Overview
  1. Select Add a Description to add more information about this assessment you are building.
  2. To add keywords or criteria to help filter and find this assessment later, select Add Tags to apply them.
  3. Filter Standards is where you can add standards to the assessment. Later, you can align the standards to the questions.
  4. To attach a digital copy of any materials, select Upload Materials. This is an important step to making the assessment available for online testing.
  5. To begin adding questions and building your answer key, select Add.
  6. To quickly create a large of number of questions of a single item type, select Quick Entry.

The most important steps are to create your Answer Key and to Upload Materials. Without an answer key, students cannot take the assessment. All other options from standard alignment to descriptions to tags can be applied later even with student data.

Question Types Overview

When adding items or questions, consider your material(s) as a guide to determine which item or question type you want to create. Each question type available will present specific settings that may be perfect as default but can be edited to match your desired results.

Multiple Choice

  • How Does It Score? Auto-graded
  • Default Setup: 5 answers, A-E; 1 point score. Only 1 answer can be correct. All others are incorrect.
  • Best For: Single Answer Questions

Multiple Choice (Partial Credit)

  • How Does It Score? Auto-graded
  • Default Setup: 5 answers, A-E; 1 point score. Only 1 answer can be correct. All others are incorrect, but has option for incorrect choices to deduct points.
  • Best For: Providing points on the correct answer and answers that are close or “almost” correct
  • Scenario: B and D are correct. If a student only answers B or D, then they will receive -1 point of the total.

Multiple Choice (Advanced)

  • How Does It Score? Auto-graded
  • Default Setup: 5 answers, A-E; 1 point score
  • Custom Setting Options: Ability to add alternative correct answers with allocated total points when selected
  • Best For: Questions that require a weighting of answer choices such as AE=2 but A=5
  • Scenario: Any answers that are not created are considered incorrect.

Constructed Response

  • How Does It Score: Teacher-Scored, Teacher Graded
  • Default Setup: 2 answers, 0-1; 1 rubric score with weight of 1 point as max rubric score
  • Custom Setting Options: Paper Answer Sheet to include background options such as lined, blank, or grid space from 1 line to multiple pages.
  • Best For: Fill in the blank, short answer, matching; questions where the answer may be subjective

Constructed Response (Advanced)

  • How Does It Score: Teacher-Scored, Teacher Graded
  • Default Setup: 4 answers, 1-4; 4 rubric score with weight of 4 points as max rubric score (ie. 3=12, 2=8, 1=4)
  • Custom Setting Options: Ability to alter other rubric scores and their point values (i.e. 3 = 15 instead of default 12). Paper Answer Sheet options to include background options such as lined, blank, or grid space from 1 line to multiple pages
  • Best For: Short Answer (Paragraph); Essay; Charts, Graphs; performance measured on multiple criteria in a rubric

Explicit Constructed Response

  • How Does It Score: Auto-Scored, Computer-Graded
  • Default: 1 answers as entered; 1 point weight
  • Custom Setting Options: Ability to add alternative correct answers and weight
  • Best For: Fill in the Blank, Short Answer, Math, Vocabulary, Matching, or questions where the answer can be determined automatically, not subjectively

NOTE: for online administration only

Next Steps

Now that you know your flex question types and various options, learn or continue to learn Creating a FLEX Assessment!

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