This website introduces a taxonomy or categorization of 28 innovative item types that may be useful in computer-based assessment. The taxonomy describes "intermediate constraint" items. These item types have responses that fall somewhere between fully constrained responses (i.e., the conventional multiple-choice question) and fully constructed responses (i.e., the traditional essay).
Click on each cell of the table to see the example and download source. The intended purpose of the taxonomy is to provide a practical resource for assessment developers as well as a useful framework for the discussion of innovative assessment formats and uses in computer-based settings.*
*See the UC Berkeley Evaluation and Assessment Research (BEAR) Center Formative Assessment Delivery System (http://bearcenter.berkeley.edu/projects/FADSweb/) for examples of delivery systems.
| Most Constrained | Least Constrained | ||||||
| Fully Selected |
Intermediate Constraint Item Types | Fully Constructed | |||||
| Less Complex |
1. Multiple Choice |
2. Selection/ Identification |
3. Reordering/ Rearrangement |
4. Substitution/ Correction |
5. Completion |
6. Construction |
7. Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|