📅 2024-09-04 — Session: Developed Guidelines for Crafting STEM Questions

🕒 01:50–02:50
🏷️ Labels: STEM, Education, Question Design, Economics, Guidelines
📂 Project: Teaching
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to develop comprehensive guidelines and templates for crafting complex multiple-choice questions in STEM and Economics fields, focusing on educational task design and evaluation.

Key Activities

  • Reviewed essential guidelines for creating and reviewing tasks in remote work settings, emphasizing error prevention in question formulation.
  • Outlined considerations for designing educational tasks, including effective separation of answer choices from questions and providing time estimates.
  • Developed templates for creating complex STEM multiple-choice questions, ensuring they require reasoning and calculations, with peer review for accuracy.
  • Crafted guidelines for expert-level multiple-choice questions, emphasizing clarity, difficulty, and structure.
  • Analyzed a game theory problem involving survival probability in a three-player duel, detailing the calculation steps and strategic decision-making involved.
  • Designed Economics questions focused on interest rate conversion and compounding interest, refining answer choices for clarity and difficulty.

Achievements

  • Established a structured approach to creating educational tasks and questions, with detailed guidelines and templates for STEM and Economics fields.
  • Developed a process for evaluating multiple-choice questions, including difficulty rating and reasoning assessment.
  • Analyzed and calculated survival probability in a game theory context, providing insights into strategic decision-making.

Pending Tasks

  • Further refinement of Economics questions to increase difficulty and align with postgraduate-level standards.
  • Continued development of advanced financial questions incorporating real interest rates and inflation adjustments.