Question bank ppt

a short notes on forming question bank , along with its advantages

1. QUESTION BANK MS.ANGELINE MSC(N) 2018-2020 CHOITHRAM COLLEGE OF NURSING , INDORE

2. CONTENT

3. INTRODUCTION The questions bank makes available statistically sound questions of known technical worth and model question paper and thus facilitates selection of proper questions for a well designed to questions paper .

4. A question bank is planned library of test items designed to fulfil certain predetermined purposes. Questions banks should be prepared with at most care so as to cover the entire prescribed text . Questions bank should be exhaustive and cover entire content with different types .

5. “An item bank or questions 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”. (By – B.H Choppin ) DEFINITION : “An item bank is defined as an organized collection of test items that can be assessed for test development”. (By – Rudner )

6. CHARACTERSTICS OF QUESTION BANK Questions bank should be based on based ideas, purposes , adapted to the particular objectives of mind Questions bank should be within the range of the students experiences and knowledge Question bank should present a challenged which stimulates an educative response in keeping with the objectives.

7. Question bank should contain only one ideas, a many faceted questions only confuse the students, who usually answers but one phase and forget the remainder Question bank is continuous process . Question bank is based on action.

8. Questions bank maintains records of any number of questions with their answers in all the languages with their corresponding courses, categories and levels. Questions bank presents for any particular course, level language, selected category and type of questions

9. 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. It is a pool of readymade quality questions is made available to teachers and examiners. So that they may select appropriate questions to assess predetermined objectives.

10. PRINCIPLES : Spent adequate amount of time for developing the question. Match the questions to the content. Try to make the questions valid , reliable and balanced. Use a variety of testing methods. Write questions that test skills other than recall. While framing questions it has to be ensured that they are unambiguous, simple in the language and brief as far as possible. Each of the questions should evaluate some specific content area or learning outcome. Their difficulty level should be appreciated to the group of learners being tested. Each questions should be accompanied with some specific information. All the objectives 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, Multiple choice types etc should be grouped together. Item in each section should be arranged in order of their difficulty , as far as possible.

11. PREPRATION OF QUESTION BANK : STEPS Planning a question bank Development of question bank and collection of test items Blue printing for developing questions bank Validation Reviewing the questions paper Recording and storing Developing a system for maintaining confindentiality

12. VALIDATION 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.

13. CONSISTS 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) STEPS OF VALIDATION

14. 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.

15. The items are set within and based on the objectives and course contents outlined in the syllabus . 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 questions are well distributed in the different parts of the syllabus course contents/cover syllabus adequately.

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

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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.

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