Question Objects – Source of Electronic Questions

Abstract The high quality electronic tests and self tests should be an indispensable part of modern study materials and study environment. The described theory says that the items of electronic tests and self tests are electronic questions and that every electronic question is generated by the so called question object. Each question object belongs to one of the defined types. The main goal of this paper is to introduce a prepared formal description and describe the set of useful types of electronic question objects regardless of their connection with the existing software. The author tries to bridge the possible gap between the educational needs and the range of various types of available software.