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Table 1 Scoring rubric for the creation of a 5 items multiple-choice questions test (MCQT)

From: Gamification and active learning in higher education: is it possible to match digital society, academia and students' interests?

 

SUPERB

(100 POINTS)

REMARKABLE

(80 POINTS)

SUFFICIENT

(60 POINTS)

NOT ENOUGH

(0 POINTS)

Technical adequacy

30%

All items in the MCQt contain "productive" and not simply "reproductive" questions:

The asked question requires a process of reflection and deduction on the part of the reader before being answered

The questions and answers do not conform to the mere literality of class notes

Justification of the correct answer requires employing several cause-effect relationships in a chained fashion

30 points

4 of the items in the MCQt contain "productive" and not simply "reproductive" questions:

The asked question requires a process of reflection and deduction on the part of the reader before being answered

The questions and answers do not conform to the mere literality of class notes

Justification of the correct answer requires employing several cause-effect relationships in a chained fashion

24 points

Between 2 and 3 of the items in the MCQt contain "productive" and not simply "reproductive" questions:

The asked question requires a process of reflection and deduction on the part of the reader before being answered

The questions and answers do not conform to the mere literality of class notes

Justification of the correct answer requires employing several cause-effect relationships in a chained fashion

18 points

Less than 2 of the items in the MCQt contain "productive" and not simply "reproductive" questions:

The asked question requires a process of reflection and deduction on the part of the reader before being answered

The questions and answers do not conform to the mere literality of class notes

Justification of the correct answer requires employing several cause-effect relationships in a chained fashion

0 points

Accuracy

20%

All items in the MCQt are characterized by:

Include all the relevant information for the resolution of the question, but without resulting in an excessively extensive formulation that makes it difficult to understand

Avoid answers such as "all of the above" or "none of the above"

Avoid answers with words of ambiguous meaning such as "normally", "typically", "may be", etc. or very specific determinants such as "always", "never", "all", "none", etc

20 points

4 of the items in the MCQt are characterized by:

Include all the relevant information for the resolution of the question, but without resulting in an excessively extensive formulation that makes it difficult to understand

Avoid answers such as "all of the above" or "none of the above"

Avoid answers with words of ambiguous meaning such as "normally", "typically", "may be", etc. or very specific determinants such as "always", "never", "all", "none", etc

16 points

Between 2 and 3 of the items in the MCQt are characterized by:

Include all the relevant information for the resolution of the question, but without resulting in an excessively extensive formulation that makes it difficult to understand

Avoid answers such as "all of the above" or "none of the above"

Avoid answers with words of ambiguous meaning such as "normally", "typically", "may be", etc. or very specific determinants such as "always", "never", "all", "none", etc

12 points

Less than 2 of the items in the MCQt are characterized by:

Include all the relevant information for the resolution of the question, but without resulting in an excessively extensive formulation that makes it difficult to understand

Avoid answers such as "all of the above" or "none of the above"

Avoid answers with words of ambiguous meaning such as "normally", "typically", "may be", etc. or very specific determinants such as "always", "never", "all", "none", etc

0 points

Structure

15%

All items in the MCQt are characterized by:

Include four answers, of which one and only one is correct

Sort the answers in a logical sequence

Identify the correct answer and provide an explanation to justify its choice

15 points

4 of the items in the MCQt are characterized by:

Include four answers, of which one and only one is correct

Sort the answers in a logical sequence

Identify the correct answer and provide an explanation to justify its choice

12 points

Between 2 and 3 of the items in the MCQt are characterized by:

Include four answers, of which one and only one is correct

Sort the answers in a logical sequence

Identify the correct answer and provide an explanation to justify its choice

9 points

Less than 2 of the items in the MCQt are characterized by:

Include four answers, of which one and only one is correct

Sort the answers in a logical sequence

Identify the correct answer and provide an explanation to justify its choice

0 points

Plausibility

20%

All items in the MCQt avoid the use of:

Absurd answers

Answers that are very similar to each other, that overlap or that are not mutually exclusive

Responses of unequal length and/or degree of detail

20 points

4 of the items in the MCQt avoid the use of:

Absurd answers

Answers that are very similar to each other, that overlap or that are not mutually exclusive

Responses of unequal length and/or degree of detail

16 points

Between 2 and 3 of the items in the MCQt avoid the use of:

Absurd answers

Answers that are very similar to each other, that overlap or that are not mutually exclusive

Responses of unequal length and/or degree of detail

12 points

Less than 2 of the items in the MCQt avoid the use of:

Absurd answers

Answers that are very similar to each other, that overlap or that are not mutually exclusive

Responses of unequal length and/or degree of detail

0 points

Linguistic proofreading

15%

All items in the MCQt are characterized by:

The absence of spelling errors, punctuation and/or syntactic and/or grammatical structure

Maintain the grammatical concordance between the question and the different answers formulated

Use an adequate vocabulary, not colloquial and adjusted to the technical terminology of the subject

15 points

4 of the items in the MCQt are characterized by:

The absence of spelling errors, punctuation and/or syntactic and/or grammatical structure

Maintain the grammatical concordance between the question and the different answers formulated

Use an adequate vocabulary, not colloquial and adjusted to the technical terminology of the subject

12 points

Between 2 and 3 of the items in the questionnaire are characterized by:

The absence of spelling errors, punctuation and/or syntactic and/or grammatical structure

Maintain the grammatical concordance between the question and the different answers formulated

Use an adequate vocabulary, not colloquial and adjusted to the technical terminology of the subject

9 points

Less than 2 of the items in the questionnaire are characterized by:

The absence of spelling errors, punctuation and/or syntactic and/or grammatical structure

Maintain the grammatical concordance between the question and the different answers formulated

Use an adequate vocabulary, not colloquial and adjusted to the technical terminology of the subject

0 points