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title: Choice and response
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  The learner selects an answer from options, testing understanding of a
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    title: Duolingo
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  preview:
    updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
    title: Choice and response
    description: >-
      The learner selects an answer from options, testing understanding of a
      meaning, rule or appropriate action.
    image:
      src: images/mechanics/learning-duo-101-6.webp
      width: 665
      height: 1440
      game: Duolingo
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      credit: Duolingo
      rights: © Duolingo. All rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.
      caption: 'Duolingo: choosing the appropriate spoken response'
      alt: 'Duolingo: choosing the appropriate spoken response'
      markers:
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    tips:
      - Use plausible wrong options that reveal a particular misconception.
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      - title: Duolingo
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          https://blog.duolingo.com/duolingo-101-how-to-learn-a-language-on-duolingo/
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  Educational reference expanded from all 64 families and 749 variants of the
  original children-education taxonomy, with original editorial additions dated
  2026-10-20. Sources support specific methods and examples, not the entire
  classification or its effectiveness.
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attribution: gamemechanics.pro contributors
catalogKey: catalog/education
---
# Choice and response

id: education--family-01
type: mechanic
key: mechanic/education--family-01
lang: en
status: active
url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/education--family-01/

The learner selects an answer from options, testing understanding of a meaning, rule or appropriate action.

## At a glance

![Duolingo: choosing the appropriate spoken response](https://gamemechanics.pro/images/mechanics/learning-duo-101-6.webp)

[Duolingo](https://blog.duolingo.com/duolingo-101-how-to-learn-a-language-on-duolingo/) · © Duolingo. All rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.

1. Three responses to the spoken question

- Use plausible wrong options that reveal a particular misconception.

- [Duolingo](https://blog.duolingo.com/duolingo-101-how-to-learn-a-language-on-duolingo/)

## How it works

Choose one correct option

## Variants

### Variants

<a id="family-01-branch-1"></a>

- Choose one correct option <a id="family-01-variant-1"></a>
- Answer yes or no <a id="family-01-variant-4"></a>
- Answer true or false <a id="family-01-variant-5"></a>
- Choose every suitable option <a id="family-01-variant-2"></a>
- Exclude incorrect options <a id="family-01-variant-3"></a>
- Enter an original answer <a id="family-01-variant-7"></a>
- Indicate an image region <a id="family-01-variant-9"></a>
- Select an action under a condition <a id="family-01-variant-8"></a>
- Choose the best of several acceptable options <a id="family-01-variant-6"></a>
- Rank answers by confidence <a id="family-01-variant-10"></a>

## Design example

Choose a vehicle that lets the character cross a river.

## Context and limits

A mechanic map for games with explicit learning goals, from first encounters with a topic to professional practice. It covers children, teenagers and adults; choose subject, difficulty, context and controls for the learner. Player actions, subject content, instructional support and assessment are distinct layers. Scores and game completion alone do not establish mastery or skill transfer.

## Connected materials


## Sources and provenance

Educational reference expanded from all 64 families and 749 variants of the original children-education taxonomy, with original editorial additions dated 2026-10-20. Sources support specific methods and examples, not the entire classification or its effectiveness.

- [Duolingo](https://blog.duolingo.com/duolingo-101-how-to-learn-a-language-on-duolingo/) (id: source-872a30e434db6d16)

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