Posts tagged with exams (4)

Exam questions need to be valid, reliable, well phrased, well weighted, and markable. The following checklist is a summary of the suggestions presented in a series of posts (I, II, III) dedicated to writing exam questions for software developers.

Reliable exams require good weighting - the allocation of marks - and reasonable marking schemes. This, the third post in a series on writing exam questions, provides suggestions for both these areas.

This, the second post in a series on writing exam questions, demonstrates good phrasing and shows how to fix some common errors.

I’ve written many exam papers and marked many, many more. This, and the following posts, contain suggestions that I follow when writing exams. I show examples of how to fix poor form and provide a checklist for good exam questions.