QUESTION BANK PREPARATION, VALIDATION & MODERATION BY

PANEL & UTILIZATIONPRESENTED BY

Mrs. AMRITA ROYM.SC PSYCHIATRIC NURSING

NIMHANS,BANGALORE

DEFINITION

• “An item bank is defined as an organized collection of test items that can be assessed for test development” - Rudner.

• “An item bank or question bank is a collection of test items organized, classified and catalogues the order to facilitate the construction of a variety of achievement and other types of mental test.”

- B. H. Choppin.

PURPOSES

• To improve the teaching learning process • Through instructional efforts the student’s

growth will be obtained• To improve evaluation process• A pool of test items can be used for formative

and summative evaluation of the student’s performance

NEED• Before the test, the teachers are generally not

getting adequate time to prepare the questions. Naturally in the absence of adequate time, they prepare them haphazardly.

• Construction of test questions on the spot is rather difficult. It is time consuming.

• If there is an item or question bank, the material from it can be used by any teacher and by any school.

• It is needed to produce and evaluate questions.

PRINCIPLES• Spent adequate amount of time for developing the

question• Match the questions to the content • Try to make the question valid, reliable, and balanced.• Use a variety of testing methods• Write questions that tests skills other than recall• While framing question it has to be ensured that they

are unambiguous, simple in the language and brief as far as possible.

• Each of the question should evaluate some specific content area or learning outcome.

PRINCIPLES• Their difficulty level should be appreciated to the group

of learners being tested.• Each question should be accompanied with some specific

information• All the objective items should be grouped in one section,

while the short answer type and essay type item should be in another section.

• In the section of objective type items having the same format, e.g. Yes- No type, True- False type, multiple choice types etc should be grouped together.

• Item in each section should be arranged in order of their difficulty, as far as possible.

I. PREPARATION OF

QUESTION BANK

STEPS

• Planning a question bank • Development of question bank and Collection of

test items• Blue Printing for Developing Question Bank• Validation• Reviewing The Question Paper• Recording and storing• Developing a system for maintaining

confidentiality

II. VALIDATION

DEFINITION

• It is defined as to make or declare legally valid.

USES OF VALIDATION

• Relevance is obtained.• Grammatical correction done.• Plausibility of distracters checked• Can be used as effective tool in class room

teaching.• Avoids dangerous situations.• A feed back to teachers.• Create better learning process.

STEPSCONSISTS OF THREE STEPS:• Questioner analysis (before the

commencement of the test)

• Critical evaluation of the test (before the commencement of the test)

• Item analysis(after the test)

III. MODERATION BY PANEL

PURPOSES A panel comprising of three or more experts

(moderators/subject experts) has to ensure that:• The task is clear in each item and the person

attempting an item will know what is expected. The task in an item is understood in the same way by all candidates.

• The items are expressed in a language which is as clear as possible to the candidates.

• The items are set within and based on the objectives and course contents outlined in the syllabus.

PURPOSES• The questions are well distributed in the different parts of

the syllabus course contents/cover syllabus adequately.• The items are fair assessment of candidates at a

particular level and if they are not, they should be tempered to the level of the candidates, actually, among others, that are moderation is,

• The items are technically correct and accurate, offering the best way testing the concepts or principles or knowledge it is intended to test. They should not have clues to the correct answers.

• The items are original and not just copied from the text books or past examination papers.

IV. UTILIZATION OF QUESTION BANK

• A judicious selection of questions can be made for instructional purpose.

• Different types of types of questions selected from a question bank may be used for pre testing, development, review and revision of a lesson.

• In the preparation of textual material a question poll can be utilized for preparing review exercises in the text books.

• the preparation of teaching units or resource units also involves the use of evaluation materials which may be picked up from the question bank.

• For evaluating the pupil’s progress the question bank can be used most efficiently. Individual questions can be stored and grouped for use in topic or unit testing in periodical test.

• Individual questions, unit tests and question papers can be profitably used by the examining agencies by making the question bank available for paper setters.

• When question banks are established in institutions, students can use them for self evaluation in their spare time.

• When questions on all topics of the prescribed syllabus are available pupils can review the lessons. Even teachers can make use of such data for quick revision.

REFFERENCES• B.T. Basavanthappa 2003 ´TEXT BOOK OF NURSING EDUCATION I

edition, New delhi .jaypee brothers publications , page no:473-476, 537-539.

• K.P. Neeraja (2003) ´ TEXT BOOK OF NURSING EDUCATIONµ I edition,NewDelhi jaypee brothers publications page no: 419-426.

• Loretta.E. Heidgerken (1997) ´TEACHING AND LEARNING IN SCHOOL OF NURSING. 3 edition NewDelhi , Jaypee brothers publications,page no: 446 448.

• B. Sankaranayan etal (2003) LEARNING AND TEACHING NURSING. I EDITION, Calicut Brainful publications page no: 239-255.

• www.cna-nurses.ca/CNA/documents/pdf/publications/CRNE_Bulletin_April_2006_e.pdf

• www.egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/24817/1/Unit15.• www.ignou.ac.in/institute/handbook4/SEC6.• www.ncme.org/pubs/items/25.pdf.•

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