Quiz Management: Guidelines for Developing Quizzes

Take time to design a high-quality quiz, so you get data you can trust.
  1. Offer one to three questions. Don't ask your readers to spend more than a couple minutes on the quiz.
  2. Test only a couple key concepts. Take time to decide what are the fundamentals you want your readers to know. Don't worry about details; the quiz should test deep understanding rather than rote memorization.
  3. Show the document to several colleagues, including some who are not experts in the subject matter. This is crucial because your first draft will probably introduce ambiguity into quiz questions, which will anger readers and ruin your hope of getting useful results. A few other sets of eyes can help you remove ambiguities.
  4. Keep questions short.
  5. Keep the HTML simple (use the sample quiz as a model). Simple layout makes it easier for readers to read the questions, and fancy HTML could even introduce security problems.