Importance of Well-Formulated Assessment Questions

🚨If learners need to read an assessment question three times… the problem isn’t the learner. It’s the question.

In training assessments, I often see questions written by SMEs that are designed—intentionally or not—to trap the learner instead of assessing their knowledge.

Examples I see all the time:

 • Vague questions

 • Complicated sentence structures

 • Answer choices that are a paragraph long

 • “Trick” wording that confuses more than it measures

An assessment shouldn’t test how well someone can decode a question.

It should test whether they understood the training.

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