See good examples

Review these items to see examples of good pedagogy and best practices. You may also want to make copies and edit them.

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In addition to the following examples that professors can choose for their courses, you may also want to look at training items designed to help you author specific answer types.

Biology The Hints in these items are to the point, and have a high student success rate without being too easy.	Item ID
Pedigree Analysis: Galactosemia Meiosis (2 of 3): The Mechanism (BioFlix tutorial)	1091049 1071580
Chemistry
Stoichiometry: Hints for Part A do a good job of walking students through each step. The Parts are ordered logically and move from quantitative tasks to a more qualitative task.	1032760
Intermolecular Forces: This more basic item provides a detailed description and definitions in the introduction, and presents the material step by step. Students use this information in each Part. Parts build on each other, getting harder from Part A to Part D.	1035625
The First Law of Thermodynamics: This tutorial starts with a qualitative task to get students thinking about the topic. Parts B and C move from a question of intermediate difficulty to a question of higher difficulty.	1108606
DNA Structures: This is a good, lower level item that includes a labeling task.	1108525
Physics
These items use vectors, diagrams, formulas, labeling, and multiple choice to steer students toward correct answers.
Magnetic Field from Current Segments	1004747
Projectile motion problems	1013403
Animal Motion	1011366
An Airplane’s Ground Speed	1011379
Cerenkov Radiation II	1011249
Secondary Voltage and Current in a Transformer Ranking Task	1012553
Baby Bounce with a Hook	1011350
The Archerfish	1011302

View author training items

Topics described	Item ID
Numeric, string, chemical formula, and tables	1118654
Multiple choice, multiple select, ranking, labeling, and vocabulary	1123659
Text variables	1126673
Graphing	1126938
Graphing projectile motion	1013813
Round function	1075756