ITEM BANKING Mohamed Abdel Latif Hussein 2014

Agenda  What is Item Bank?  Review Test Development Cycle  Purpose of Item Banks  Structure of Item Banks  Functionality of Item Banking programs  Item Banking Software 2

What is Item Bank? An item Bank is a collection of test items that may be easily accessed for use in preparing examinations. 3

4 Test Development Cycle Building Framework Building TOSAuthor ItemsStoring Items Test Form Assembly Publishing Test Forms AdministrationScoring Data Management & Analysis Results & Reporting

5 Purpose of Item Banks  Archiving item content  Archiving item statistics  Forms assembly  Manual  Automatic  Test production (preparation)  Paper & pencil tests  Computer based tests Stand-alone application On-line delivery

6 Structure of Item Bank  What information is (or should be) stored in Item Banks?  ITEMS  TEST FORMS

7 Item Bank Functions  Passive  Archiving item content  Archiving item statistics  Active  Search capability  Printing hardcopies of items and tests  Exporting corresponding electronic files  Test assembly functions  Test production functions  Item Bank vs. Item Pool

8 Item Bank Software  Custom made  Pro: flexibility and customization to specific needs  Contra: may be expensive, long time to develop, require high capacity IT and psychometric staff  Commercially available  Pro: professionally made, cost effective, technical support available  Contra: cannot always meet all customer needs

9 Evaluation of Item Banks software  Documentation  Requirement specification (for development of custom item banks)  Manual  Comprehensiveness  Amount of information that can be stored  Functionality  Search engine, import-export functions, editors, statistical support, forms assembly, test production  Flexibility  Adding information and adding functions  User Interface  Friendly and easy to use

10 Evaluation of Item Banks software  Editor  Statistics  Generic Use  FW & TOS  Import & Export  Test Assembly  Test production  User Interface  Security  Availability

11 Item Banks software Samples  Item Pools  E-Learning Question Banks  File Question Banks  Comprehensive question banks

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