Question type: Matching
Context
This question type should allow an author to:
- Insert multiple statements
- Provide possible options that match and specify the correct one per statement
- An option can be matched to more than statement
- There can be more options than statements (distractors)
- The options can be text
or images
- Provide one set of feedback for the questions or statements
For example:
Direct matches: each statement matches one option
Statement | Possible options |
---|---|
1 | a |
2 | b |
3 | c |
4 | d |
5 | e |
Answer distractors: more possible options than there are statements
Statement | Possible options |
---|---|
1 | a |
2 | b |
3 | c |
- | d |
- | e |
Reuse answers: possible options match more than one statement
Statement | Possible options |
---|---|
1 | a |
2 | b |
3 | c |
4 | c |
5 | c |
Example (real) questions
Example 1:
Column A contains a list of events occurring in a food web. On the line to the left of each phrase, write the letter of the process in column B that is responsible for the event.
Column A
- Organic molecules are made available to primary producers through this process.
___D.___
- Most of the energy entering a food web is captured through this process.
___B.___
- Energy is lost to the ecosystem at every trophic level through this process.
___C.___
Column B
A. Photosynthesis
B. Excretion
C. Respiration
D. Decomposition
Example 2:
Design
- This type of question has traditionally been designed in a double column layout, but this ins't a requirement.
- If columns are used, they should be distinct (i.e should not look like one table).