This may not be a programming question, but I don't know where to ask for this and it's still related.

We all know that the checkbox and drop-down menu is a UI paradigm brought in from HTML or web interface.

I'm not asking for code implementations here. A google search had produced many results. Although if anyone is willing to share that's great.

So the question is: Is this a good design approach if we just want to provide a checkbox or drop-down functionality? (e.g. for quizzes, or forms)