MCQ Creator

MCQ Creator is the Lab’s productized version of the law-mcq-generator skill: a faculty-facing tool for drafting multiple-choice exam questions that pass the structural and psychometric quality checks the assessment literature actually expects.

The point is to make it cheap to produce good MCQs — narrative- or fact-pattern-based, with plausible distractors, single best answers, and no clueing — instead of the cookie-cutter items most generators produce.

What we’re doing

• Productize law-mcq-generator into a faculty-facing tool with course presets across IP, contracts, torts, con law, civ pro, and other doctrinal courses.
• Enforce the quality controls the underlying skill is built on: Haladyna-Downing-Rodriguez structural rules, distractor validation against the doctrine, single-best-answer guarantees, cognitive-taxonomy tagging so question difficulty is intentional.
• Support narrative and fact-pattern formats — not just one-line stems — so MCQs can probe the same kinds of reasoning a short essay would.
• Output question banks in formats that drop into the major exam-delivery platforms.

Why this matters

MCQs are a powerful teaching and assessment tool when they’re built well and a waste of student time when they aren’t. The bar to building them well is high enough that most faculty just don’t — which leaves a real assessment lever underused. This tool puts that lever in reach without asking faculty to learn the psychometric literature themselves.

Status

Active. The underlying law-mcq-generator skill is in production use; productization as a Lab project is the next step.