Introduction
Learning to write items and performance tasks is a critical and negelcted skill among Caribbean Teachers.
On this page we provide resources such as our item writing templates and links to the best international resources on item writing
We provide multiple resources so skim the documents and find the one that best matches your immediate needs. For example, you can use the TIMSS guidelnes or ETS guidelines mainly and then include the others as references.
Don't forget to consult the latest version of the MC-Item Writing Rules (Haladyna, Downing, & Rodriquez, 2002).
- Haladyna, T.M., Downing, S.M., & Rodriguez, M.C. (2002). A review of multiple-choice item-writing guidelines for classroom assessment. Applied Measurement in Education, 15(3), 309-334.
