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Overview

The following will walk through the process of creating quiz-style questions from training materials.These questions will be created via a template and placed into a pool of questions for use testing the knowledge of future employees on the related subject area. 

Tip
titleBest Practice

Create questions that are tough, but fair. You might find yourself faced with similar questions, or even your own, at some point.

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Complete the Training

Whether it is a video, a document, an instructor-led course or some other format, fully satisfying the course expectations and absorbing all of the material is the first step towards creating great content based upon it.

Tip
titleBest Practice

Take notes early and often. The more material you have to work with once the training is complete, the easier it will be to create a list of questions in both great quality and great quantity.

 

Get the Template

The following Excel file provides a template for training material-based question creation.

QuestionTemplate.xlsx

 

Know the Fields

General Fields

QID

Submitter

Course Fields

Site

Name

URL

Tag Fields

Discipline

Category

Subject

Difficulty

Applicability

 

 

Warning
It's OK to focus specifically on the source training, but steer clear of opinions and be sure to set the Applicability field to Course.

Question Fields

Type

Question

Hint

Answers

Explanation

 

  CourseTagsQuestion
QIDSubmitterSiteNameURLDisciplineCategorySubjectDifficultyApplicabilityType  
0Mark Chadbournewww.practice.comAwesome Questions in Five Easy Stepswww.practice.com/awesomeProfessionalCommunicationQuestioningBeginnerGeneralMultiple SelectQuestionWhat qualities should an awesome question have?
HintSometimes an optional hint might be a good thing to include…
Answer 1It should test concepts rather than memorization
Answer 2It should not be easily answered by a Google search
Answer 3It should be tagged with appropriate data to categorize it
Answer 4It should be based on the opinion of the person writing the question
Answer 5It should provide any necessary context to answer it properly
Correct Answer(s)1,2,3,5
ExplanationAn awesome question should have all of the qualities necessary to properly test a candidate's knowledge. It should NOT focus too narrowly on terminology or opinions specific to training source material.

 

Follow Best Practices

A good question should be aligned with each of the following best practices.

Tip
titleBest Practices
  • Be sure to completely fill out each field of the template for each question
  • Test understanding/concepts over memorization (e.g. the difference between knowing how to multiply rather than simply knowing the times tables)
  • Inject practical situations framing key concepts wherever possible; it should not be possible to answer a question with the first page of Google search results
  • Provide proper context; if a question is best posed with an accompanying code snippet or other artifact, include one