Workshop: “Building Better Exams: Identifying and Avoiding Multiple-Choice Item Writing Flaws”

Jessica Greene, PharmD, CIPhER Faculty Fellow
Clinical Assistant Professor
Division of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics

Would you like to learn more about common item-writing mistakes that can make multiple-choice exam questions easier or more difficult than we intended?  And discover how to avoid and/or fix those flaws?  This introductory-level workshop will overview common multiple-choice item-writing flaws related to student testwiseness and irrelevant item difficulty.  During the session you will practice identifying multiple-choice item-writing flaws and learn practical, easy-to-implement ways to improve the quality of your quizzes, tests and exams.

Box lunches will be provided – for RSVPs only – from 12:30-1:00 p.m.

Please RSVP – “Yes 9/22” only – to cipher@unc.edu by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Sept. 20.