General Principles for Assessing Higher-Order Thinking—Highly recommended general reading to understand the general principles of designing for open-book exam.

• Preparing for an Online, Open-Book Exam

• Assessment considerations in moving from closed-book to open-book exam

• Download step by step guide open-book exam

• Open Book Exams and Take-Home Exams: The Pros and Cons & Detailed Process

• The University of Adelaide's Guide to online open-book exams

• UJ Guidelines for Online Open-Book Exams

• Adapting your exam for the online teaching environment

• Why Open-book Tests Deserve a Place in Your Courses

• How to Prepare for Open Book Exams

• A Guide for Online open book exams

• How to design and execute an online open book exam

• Guidelines for Designing Online Exams

• Guidance for Designing Alternative Assessment Methods

• Best Practices for Unsupervised Testing

• Best Practices on Examination Construction, Administration, and Feedback

• Remote Exams and Assessments

• Fourteen Simple Strategies to Reduce Cheating on Online Examinations

• Assessing Student Learning: Alternatives to Closed-Book Exams

• Open-book exams: assessing complex competencies

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• A Guide for Academics—Open-Book Exam ( A guide from The University of Newcastle, Australia)

• Open Book Exams (University of Oxford)

• Redesign test questions for open book format

• Drawing up Open Exam Questions for Remote Exams

• Modifying closed-book exams for use as open-book exams (examples shown for Mathematics subject)

• Guidelines for Open-Book Exam

• How to design a good open book exam

• Tips for Creating Open Book Exams

• How to Create Open Book Exams

• Designing Open-note Exams

• Designing open-book exams

• Example of Instructions and Questions for Open-Book Exam

• A Short Guide to Writing Effective Test Questions

• Designing Assessment for the Open Book Exam

• Designing open-book take-home assessments

• Best Practices for Designing and Grading Exams

• Online multiple-choice exam - open book examination

• Higher Order Thinking Skills Question Templates

• Higher Order Thinking Question Stem

• Higher-Order Thinking

• Higher Order Thinking: Bloom’s Taxonomy

• How-to-Guide: Remote Oral Exams

• Take home exams

• Assessment Workload and Equivalences— For some advice on considering equivalence in student work-load.

• Questions That Promote Deeper Thinking

• How to Construct Open Ended Questions (a paper by UKM researchers)

• Open-Endedness

• 48 Critical Thinking Questions For Any Content Area

• 62 Great Critical Thinking Questions

• Critical Thinking Questions That Will Blow Your Mind

• Asking questions - critical thinking tools

• Questions to Provoke Critical Thinking

• Examples of Critical Thinking Questions

• How to Write Discussion Questions

• Open-Ended Questioning with Bloom's

• Online Assessments: Tips & Advantages of Open-Ended Questions?

• How to Write Discussion Questions That Actually Spark Discussions

• How to Ask Questions that Prompt Critical Thinking

• Example of rubric for open-ended question

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• Making Multiple-Choice Exams Better

• Writing Multiple-Choice Questions that Demand Critical Thinking

• Scenario-based multiple-choice that assess knowledge at higher Bloom’s levels

• Writing Multiple Choice Questions For Higher Order Thinking

• Converting multiple choice questions to scenario-based questions

• Constructing Multiple-Choice Items to Measure Higher-Order Thinking

• Writing Good Multi-choice questions

• Writing Multiple-Choice Questions for Higher-level Thinking

• Developing multiple choice questions that test higher order thinking

• How2MCQ – Tips for efficiently writing meaningful automarkable questions

• How to rewrite a quiz question as scenario-based training

• Constructing scenario based Multiple Choice Question

• Writing clinical scenarios for clinical science questions

• Creating Better Multiple-Choice Tests for Online Courses

• Seven Mistakes to Avoid When Writing Multiple-Choice Questions

• Don’t Assume Difficult Question Automatically Lead to Higher-Order Thinking

• Variations to Traditional Multiple-Choice Testing

• Twelve tips for constructing multiple choice questions that test

• How to Write Scenario Questions in Knowledge Guru

• How to Write Multiple-Choice Questions for Workforce Training

• Types of Multiple Choice Questions

• Writing Good Multiple Choice Test Questions

• Writing Multiple-Choice Question to Assess Higher Order Thinking

• Guidelines for writing multiple-choice questions

• 14 Rules for Writing Multiple-Choice Questions

• Sample multiple choice questions that test higher order thinking and application (Content areas: economics, physics, psychology, ethics, and philosophy)

• Examples of MCQs designed for higher order thinking

• Rubric examples

• Assessment considerations in moving from closed-book to open-book exams

• Designing an assessment rubric (PDF, 428 KB) and rubric template (MS Word, 57 KB)

• Example of rubric for open-ended question

• Open-Book Exam Guide for Students (University of Oxford)

• How to Take an Open Book Exam

• Exam preparation: Strategies for open book exams

• Preparing for Open-Book Exams

• Tips on Passing Open Book Exams

• A Guide to Studying and Completing Open-book Exams

• Preparation for Time-Limited Open book Exams

• Guidelines for Online Assessment for Educators (by Commonwealth of Learning)

• Best Practices in Online Testing and Evaluation

• Best Practice in Online Assessment: Principles, Processes and Outcomes

• Q&A: Toward Better Assessments in Online Courses

• 5 Guidelines For Developing Good Online Assessments

• Learner Assessment in Online Courses: Best Practices & More

• Developing Online Assessments of Student Learning in a Hurry

• Summary of Online Assessments and Best Practices

• 9 Ways to Assess Student Learning Online

• Best Practices and Test Options for Creating Online Assessments

• Designing Effective Online Assessments - Resource Guide

• Best Practice for Online Assessment

• Best Practices to Reduce the Impact of Cheating in Online Assessment

• How to Uphold the Best Practices in Online Grading

• The 7 Best Assessment Practices and Resources You Can Use Right Now

• Authentic Assessment in the Online Classroom

• Alternative Assessment Strategies

• Best Practices for Online Academic Integrity