About Michael
Michael Hodge co-founded Quiz Maker with Martyn Stephens in 2003 and has led the company ever since. Martyn wrote the original platform. Michael leads the company, its frontend work and its customer-led growth, and he writes the guides you will find on this site.
He studied psychology at the University of Wollongong, with coursework in psychometrics and research methods, and has extensive experience in questionnaire and survey design across educational and applied settings. That is the lens he brings to quiz making: a question is only useful if people read it the way you meant it, and a score is only useful if you can explain what it means.
He also founded SeeMyPersonality, where he directs test design and the content that explains results. For the company behind these guides, see About Quiz Maker.
Background
| Role | Founder of Quiz Maker, co-founded in 2003 with Martyn Stephens |
|---|---|
| Education | Bachelor of Science (Psychology), University of Wollongong, with coursework in psychometrics and research methods |
| Experience | Questionnaire and survey design across educational and applied settings |
| Practice areas | Item quality, scoring design, scale construction, interpretation frameworks and drop-off diagnostics |
| Elsewhere | LinkedIn and his SeeMyPersonality author page |
What he writes about here
His guides are practical: what to do in the Quiz Maker editor, in what order, and why it matters to the people who will take your quiz. They cover five kinds of work.
- Writing questions. Clear stems, wrong answers that reflect real mistakes, and one correct answer you can defend.
- Scoring and results. Pass marks, outcome logic for personality and product quizzes, and result screens that tell people something useful.
- Quizzes for training and teaching. Staff tests with certificates, and question banks you can export to Moodle, Blackboard and other LMSs.
- Quizzes for marketing. Lead capture, product recommendations and where to ask for an email address.
- Quizzes for fun. Trivia nights and quizzes that test how well your friends know you.
Guides by Michael
Every guide on quiz-maker.com that carries his byline, newest first. The date is when each page was last updated. For the wider guide hub, see Tutorials and updates.
- Product recommendation quiz makerMatch shoppers to the right product with outcome logic.Updated
- Make a lead generation quizBuild a quiz that sorts visitors by need and captures their contact details.Updated
- How to make a quizMake a quiz step by step: questions, answers, the results screen, then share it.Updated
- Employee test makerMake a test for your staff, with pass marks and certificates.Updated
- How to write great quiz questionsTwelve rules for questions a prepared person gets right and a guesser gets wrong.Updated
- Free trivia makerMake a trivia quiz, or pull questions from the random trivia generator.Updated
- Friend quiz makerMake a quiz that tests how well your friends know you.Updated
- LMS quiz generatorDraft questions with AI and export them as Aiken, GIFT, Moodle XML or a Blackboard file.Updated
- Quiz templates and examplesSeventy-six quiz templates you can take, edit or copy into your account.Updated
- AI quiz generatorTurn a topic, a document or a PDF into a draft quiz you can edit.Updated
- Personality quiz makerBuild a personality quiz that maps each answer to an outcome.Updated
Corrections
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