Ageingness and Newness of Multiple Choice Based Questions

Institutions that offer online learning are mostly embracing objective and multiple choice based questions as a quick and efficient way of assessing learners. As time passes several e-learning tools have accumulated a lot of multiple choice questions with some of them being updated and others outdated given new innovations in academia and technology. Year in year out these questions are often referred to and are used to examine learners. More often these questions are recycled from the databases of these e-learning tools without being modified. Basing on a number of parameters identified which include among others, change of words in the question is monitored, the whole question is replaced before the curriculum changes, no changes to the question at all, questions just added to the database before curriculum change, time spent in the database by a given question with or without change. Thus, a model was designed to collaborate with the e-learning tools to determine Ageingness and Newness of such questions.