Writing Matching Items

• Employ homogeneous list
  
  
• Use relatively brief lists, placing the shorter words or phrases at the right
  
  
• Employ more responses than premises
  
  
• Order the responses logically
  
  
• Describe the basis for matching and the number of times responses may be used.
  
  
• Place all premises and responses for an item on a single page
  
  

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Source:
Popham, W. James (2002). Classroom assessment: What teachers need to know (3rd ed.). MA: Allyn & Bacon