At the Times we have a weekly health quiz http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/05/04/health/20120504_healthquiz.html with questions where the answers come from that week’s coverage. We’ve just started tracking and saving reader’s responses to these.

Whoa, neat. You should blog about that a few months down the road — I’d be interested to hear how it goes.

But how do you then classify stories into “this is for beginners” versus “this is for experts” so that we can recommend stories based on reader responses to our quizzes?

Not sure of the most effect way at this point. Maybe crowdsourcing it? One of our clients has a neat row of buttons at the bottom of their articles:

I think TED has done a similar thing with their videos and it’s turned out well (and become a useful way of navigating through their content).