In educational contexts, questioning performs a number of functions. These include facilitating learning in the classroom and the recognition of achievement through examinations and other assessments. Good quality questions are important to ensuring that these functions are achieved. This research focused on educational exams and used views from question writers to explore conceptualisations of question quality and features thought to affect question quality. Seven examination question writers from four subjects were shown some example exam questions. Participants were asked to comment on the quality of the question, reflect on performance data, rate question quality and comment more generally on how they define quality in question writing. Three conceptualisations of question quality emerged, two relating to aspects of validity and one relating to pedagogical concerns. Participants varied in which definition dominated their views. Discussions also identified question features thought to affect quality. These are similar to features previously identified as affecting difficulty and fairness by studies analysing student performance.

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质量问题：教育试题背景下的质量概念化

在教育环境中，提问有多种功能。这些包括促进课堂学习以及通过考试和其他评估来认可成就。高质量的问题对于确保实现这些功能很重要。这项研究侧重于教育考试，并使用问题作者的观点来探索问题质量的概念化以及被认为会影响问题质量的特征。向来自四个科目的七名考题作者展示了一些示例考题。参与者被要求评论问题的质量，反思表现数据，对问题质量进行评分，并更一般地评论他们如何定义问题写作的质量。出现了三种问题质量的概念，两个与有效性方面有关，一个与教学问题有关。参与者各不相同，哪个定义主导了他们的观点。讨论还确定了被认为会影响质量的问题特征。这些与之前通过分析学生表现的研究确定的影响难度和公平性的特征相似。