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)
“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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