I'm interested in what other organizations are using as their standards or editorial guidelines for any type of tests or exams (ILT, CBT, WBL) - especially the boring stuff like capitalization, punctuation, distractor length, etc. Anybody interested in sharing? THX! ~dawny

How about using a really messed up grammatical passage and having people fix it? That's a really standard one.

I think the question pertains to standards or guidelines for writing test items.

You may want to check out William Horton's web site www.horton.comfor possible examples. Also, Shrock and Coscarelli's book Criterion-referenced Testing may provide further guidance re: distractor length. I have also found good item construction advice on some of the quiz/survey sofware websites (Question Mark, Zoomerang)

Yes, standards or guidelines, that IS what I meant!! THX.

I checked out the Horton site, could you point me more specifically what you think would help? I'm finding a lot of info there about elearning standards, but not so much mentioned about editorial guidelines.

Haven't had the chance to check out the book yet, but I will. THX again! ~dawn

LOL -- sorry 'bout that dawny. I read the part about grammar and punctuation and thought that you wanted that kind of test. Der. My apologies. I'm going to step out of this conversation because I have a very strong urge to debate the use of multiple choice question tests in the first place...but that's for another thread.