MICRO TEACHING ON QUESTION BANK PREPARATION.pptx

Question bank is defined as an organized collection of test items that can be assessed for test development.

A question bank is a planned library of test items pooled through cooperative efforts for the use of students, teachers and evaluators.To improve the teaching learning process. It is an inb...

Question bank is defined as an organized collection of test items that can be assessed for test development.

A question bank is a planned library of test items pooled through cooperative efforts for the use of students, teachers and evaluators.To improve the teaching learning process. It is an inbuilt feedback mechanism for the improvement of questions.
Questions from the question bank can be used by the teacher at the pre-testing stage, for setting question papers, for measuring pupil’s achievement etc.
The question bank is very important for preparation for competitive exams.Through instructional efforts the pupil’s growth will be obtained.
To improve the evaluation process.
A tool of test can be used for formative and summative evaluation of the pupils.PREPARATION OF QUESTION BANK:�Steps include:
Planning & setting objectives
Blue print of question bank
Writing of questions
Screening of questions
Preparing the question cards
Coding of questions
Filling and storage of questions
Developing a system for maintaining confidentiality.Planning & setting objectives:
It may be general objective or specific objective. It is based on target group, group, amount of effort, subject and time target.Blue print of question bank:
Objective/behaviour aspect: It refers to the expected learning outcomes in terms of abilities like recall, recognition, translation, exploration, application, analysis, evaluation, etc.
Content/subject aspect: The content aspect includes the unit and subunit. A good question pool will be one that contains questions on all the topics in a subject testing all abilities.Writing of questions:
Questions may be invited from the experienced teachers, examiners. While inviting questions outline has to be given (specification of question, key outline answer, objectives and interventions).
Apart from this it is still better to get questions prepared by practicing teachers invited for a workshop for the purpose of preparing question bank. This will yield quality questions.Screening of questions:
After the questions are written, it can be passed on to other members of the group for their comments.
Then, these comments are passed on to the question paper setter or the author of the questions for corrections.
Then it can be passed on a committee or a team to review and finalize it.Preparing the question cards:
The finalized question may be written on the card using various colours for essay, short answer and objective type questions. ADVANTAGES: It is storage of a large number of questions.
It saves time and energy over conventional test development.
Question bank makes available ready-made test items for use by every teacher.
It provides platform for discussing curriculum goals and objectives.
Most of the examination weakness is minimized by using question banks. DISADVANTAGES: It requires a grea