Super Items
Extended response “super items” (Collis, Romberg, & Jurdak, 1986) are tasks that give students the opportunity to get involved with a context or problem situation by asking a series of open questions of increasing complexity. The first few questions might be closed-open questions or open-open questions. These are followed by more difficult questions that may not have a predefinable set of possible answers. For such questions, multiple scoring and some adjudication of responses is likely.