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The Great Psychology Testbank Sprint

Academics aim for educational history in Chilliwack

By Chilliwack TimesPublished: July 23, 2014 02:00 PMUpdated: July 23, 2014 02:362 PM

Tucked in a corner of the Cheam Mountain Golf Course clubhouse, twenty academics pored over textbooks and tappedaway on laptops Saturday in an effort to make educational history.

The participants, who all have doctorates in psychology, gathered from around British Columbia to create a body ofhigh-quality test questions for the Open Textbook Project.

“These are freely licensed textbooks that are available for faculty to use and to replace publisher’s content—which canoften cost $250 for a textbook for a course,” said Clint LaLonde. “We’re trying to lower the cost of education forstudents.”

LaLonde is the manager of open education at BCcampus, a publicly-funded organization committed to developing andpromoting more transparent and accessible education resources.

After two days of collaboration, the group wrote 851 questions covering 15 different subject areas for the first-yearpsychology test bank. The event was dubbed a “sprint” because of the speed with which such a large amount ofmaterial was created.

LaLonde said their work will be shared with an open textbook project in the U.S. called NOBA project, distributing thebenefits around North America.

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