Latest revision: 2022-03-08

Example
Didactic perspective
Learning support
Alternative question types
Settings in Inspera

The question type "True / False" is basically a multiple-choice question with only two options to choose from.

Example

Example true/false

Didactic perspective

Usually, the participants have the options “True” or “False” in response to a statement. However, it is possible to vary these answer alternatives. The alternatives should preferably be clear and short (e.g., "True / False" or "Yes / No")

Question stem

Avoid negations in the question stem

The use of negations does not test the students' knowledge of the subject, but their sense of language and logical thinking. If you want to use a negation, it needs to be in the form of a statement and the answer can only be true or false. Using a negation in a question can complicate it for the students, there are for example different ways of answering such questions depending on the cultural context. For example, the question: Didn’t the cat come home? (it did not come home) gives the answer Yes in some cultures (Yes, that is correct, the cat did not come home) while it gives the answer No in other cultures, e.g. in Sweden (No, the cat did not come home).

Answer options

Keep the answer options simple, preferably Yes / No or True / False.

The order of the answer options is set random by default. If you do not want a random order, it must be changed, see step 4.

Marking

If you mostly use the True / False question type or the like for your exam, you need to raise the limit for passing to e.g. 75 percent or weight the score for these questions differently so that the result from the True / False questions will not be decisive because there is a high chance of guessing correctly (50/50).

Learning support

The same applies as for the question type “Multiple choice”.

Alternative question types

Matchning/pairing is better suited if you have several different statements that students should rate as true or false

Essay or Text Area are better suited for some students who need learning support.

Settings in Inspera

After you have written your question on “Replace with question text” you can click the answer box, see (1) in the screenshot below.

Settings true/false

Answer box

Click on the answer box to see the side panel with the steps (2) –(4)

Prompt

Here, you write the text that is shown above the answer alternatives (“Select one alternative” is set by default)

Alternativ

Here you edit the content of the answer alternatives. The default setting is "Sant" and "Falsk".

Options

Here you can set the score and whether the answer alternatives should be displayed in random order. NOTE! The order is set random by default. If you do not want that, you need to remove the check mark.

Random order

Tip: At the Inspera Help Center, you can read more about this question type and its settings. Link to Inspera Help Center about the question type "True/false"