Running head: MULTIPLE CHOICE ITEMS 1

Multiple Choice Items Development

Colorado State University

Yuanyuan Sun
 In the course E 638 Assessment of English Language Learners I took for the TEFL/TESL

graduate program, I developed 3 multiple-choice vocabulary items for intermediate-level ESL

learners related to an ESL travel lesson plan. The lesson plan can be found in

http://www.englishcurrent.com/travel-tourism-intermediate-esl-lesson-plan/. The table below

includes the description of the construct I am testing, the directions to tell the students exactly

what to do, three multiple choice items, an answer key for each item and a scoring guide.

Vocabulary Multiple Choice Items

Construct Elicit students English vocabulary knowledge about form and meaning

particularly in the context of tourism domain.

Directions Below, there are 3 multiple-choice questions. Each question offers four

choices marked A, B, C and D. Circle the best answer for each question.

Items Question 1: Tourists are lucky to see rare wildlife living in the African

savannah, since they are facing the threat of ____ after years of overhunting.

A. Appearance

B. Existence

C. Extinction

D. Protection

Question 2: Tourists who are planning to visit Uganda should be cautioned

that people there have zero ____ for homosexuality.

A. Tolerable

B. Tolerant

C. Tolerate

D. Tolerance
 Question 3: A main goal of unconventional ecological tourism is to protect

the ____ environment from possible pollution caused by tourists.

A. Broken

B. Damaged

C. Fragile

D. Strong

Answer Key Question 1: C

Question 2: D

Question 3: C

Scoring Guide Each question is worth 1 point. Altogether 3 points for 3 questions.

Choosing the correct answer shown in answer key will be given 1 point.

No partial credit will be given.