Designing High-Quality MCQs & Assessments (Advanced)

Competency-Based Assessment

Designing High-Quality MCQs & Assessments (Advanced)

Resource Person: Ms. Chitrakala Ramachandran

Workshop Date: Wed | 14 Oct 2026 | 05:00 PM

Workshop Description

An advanced, practice-oriented workshop equipping teachers with the expertise to design rigorous, bias-free, and pedagogically sound MCQs and assessments that accurately measure higher-order thinking and provide meaningful insights into student learning.

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What you'll Learn?

  • Analyse the principles of assessment design — including validity, reliability, and alignment — and apply them to critically evaluate and improve existing MCQs and assessment tasks.
  • Construct MCQs that move beyond recall and test higher-order thinking skills such as application, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis using Bloom's Taxonomy as a design framework.
  • Identify and eliminate common flaws in MCQ construction — such as ambiguous language, implausible distractors, and cueing — to ensure questions are fair, clear, and technically sound.
  • Design a balanced assessment blueprint that maps questions to specific learning outcomes, cognitive levels, and curriculum weightage with precision and intention.
  • Develop strategies to use assessment data diagnostically — interpreting item-level results to identify learning gaps, inform instruction, and improve future assessment quality.

Skills learned

  • Higher-order question design — crafting MCQs and assessment tasks that challenge students to think critically, apply knowledge, and demonstrate deep understanding rather than surface recall.
  • Assessment blueprinting — building structured question papers with deliberate alignment between learning outcomes, cognitive demand, topic coverage, and marks distribution.
  • Bias detection & language precision — reviewing and refining assessment language to eliminate cultural bias, ambiguity, and unintended clues that compromise question integrity.
  • Data-driven reflection — analysing assessment results at the item level to draw actionable insights about student understanding and continuously raise the quality of future assessments.

Details Of Workshop:

  • Duration : 60 mins
  • CPD Hours : 1.0
  • Workshop Type : Premium
  • Certification : Yes
  • Price:
  • 99989910% OFF
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