eTest.ie has a wide choice of question types for you to choose from multiple-choice, jumbled-sentence, matching, ordering and gap-fill exercises.
The above question types are broken down into twelve specific types for you to choose from when creating a test:
· Multiple Choice
A multiple choice question consists of a question and two or more answer choices. The student will read your question and then click a button beside the answer that he or she believes to be correct. This question type can be graded automatically so the student can see their result immediately, automatically graded question can be reviewed by the teacher later and changes to the marks awarded can be made manually.
· Weighted Multiple Choice
Possible responses are given different values or weights. Fractional weightings are accepted down to the second decimal place.
· True/False
A multiple choice type question with two answer options. If you’d like you can rename the true and false into something else, for example, yes and no; or for a test in French, vrai and faux.
· Multiple Correct
A multiple correct questionis made up of a question and two or more answer choices. The student will read your question and then check a box beside all of the answers that he or she believes to be correct. (Multiple correct is different from multiple choice because the student can choose more than one answer)
· Matching
A matching question contains two or more pairs of terms. When students take the eTest, the terms will be jumbled and they will have to identify the correct matches.
· Ordering
An ordering question enter two or more terms, in the correct order. When students take the eTest the terms will be jumbled, and students will have to put them back in the correct order.
· Fill in
The fill in question type is ideal for questions that require very short (one or two word) answers to fill in a gap in a sentence.
· Numeric fill in
Numeric fill in questions can only have numbers for answers.
· Initial Answer
The initial answer question type allows you to provide a filled in answer field that students can modify. For example, an English test can have a sentence that where the word order is jumbled or contains several misspellings that the student can correct
· Dropdown Select
This question type is similar to multiple choice, except the answer choices are displayed in a dropdown list. By default the list will appear at the end of the question, but you can choose to make it appear in the middle of the question by typing an ‘*’ in the desired location.
· Short Answer
The short answer question type is ideal for open ended questions that require responses of several words or a full sentence or two. Due to the open ended nature of this question type, answers must be manually graded by the teacher.
· Essay Question
The essay question type is for open ended questions that require a response of a paragraph or more. Due to the open ended nature of this question type, answers must be manually graded by the teacher.
Feedback can be created by the teacher with every question, this allows the student to see feedback immediately after answering a question, different feedback can be created for display after an incorrect or correct answer.
