This document provides information about question banks, including their definition, principles, development, and utilization. It defines a question bank as a collection of questions on various exam subjects that can be randomly selected to create exams. The principles of question banks include matching questions to content, ensuring questions are valid, reliable, balanced, and at appropriate difficulty levels. Developing a question bank involves blueprinting learning outcomes, writing questions from various sources, reviewing questions, and storing and maintaining the bank. Question banks allow for easy administration, scoring and interpretation of exams. Research has found students value curriculum-aligned question banks but have concerns about question quality when authored by other students.

1. Welcome!!

2. QUESTION BANK
ANN JOSEPH
M.Sc. Nursing I year

3. Define the term
question bank
Enumerate the need of
question bank
Enlist the principles of
question bank
OBJECTIVES
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Explain planning a
question bank
Discuss the development
of question bank

4. QUESTION BANK

5. DEFINITION
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Question bank is defined as a rese
rvoir of a number of sets of questio
ns on each subjects in which an
examination is to be held and from
which a set for any examination ca
n be picked, cut at random and at a
short notice.

6. NEED

7. PRINCIPLES
Match
questions
to the
content.
Spend
adequate
time for
development
It
should be
valid, reliable
and balanced.
It should b
e brief and
simple
It should
be
unambiguous.

8. PRINCIPLES CONT.
Arranged
in a proper
order.
Question
should test
skills rather
than recall
Group yes-
no, true-false,
MCQ type of
question
together
Difficulty level
of the student
should be
kept in
mind.
Analyze specific
learning outcome

10. Objectives of planning a question bank
To increase
the pedagogica
l value of
Evaluation
To increase
the value of
measurement
.

11. DEVELOPMENT OF
QUESTION BANK

12. Blueprinting
Behaviour/
objective aspect
Content/
subjective area
aspect
It refers to expected learning
outcomes
It includes unit and subunit

14. Writing the questions
Old
question
paper
Textbook Standardized
test
New question bank
Sources:
New questions maybe invited from the experienced teachers, examiners,
paper setters on the basis of some honorarium.

15. Screening of questions

16. Item review
Each question or item to be
deposited in question bank
for a particular course must
be well characterized in
terms of following aspects:
The section/chapter and
unit number
Type of item
Level of
difficulty
Maximum marks
Marking
schemes
Time required
Key
answers

17. Preparing the question cards
•Detail of the topic
•Estimated difficulty level
•Subject specification .
•Estimated time .

18. Filing and storage of questions
It can be stored in a
cabinet. It is good to
have a
duplicate of it.

19. Review and removal of unwanted questions
A question bank may become a store of
outdated material after sometime if not
evaluated regularly.

20. Utilization of question bank
Ease of
administration
01 Ease of
scoring
02 Ease of
interpretation
and
application
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It is important that the question bank is
practical for its purpose. Utilization includes:

21. Research
Formative student – authored question bank: perceptions, questio
n quality and association with summative performance.
A research was done to assess the quality of the questions produced by students
and student perception of student authored question bank. They introduced two
undergraduate medical student cohorts to peer wise (n=603), and looked at their
pattern of peer wise usage, and used focus groups to assess students perception
of the value of peer wise learning.
Results:
Student focus group found that, student valued curriculum and students were
concerned about student authored question quality.

22. Recapitulation
•Define the term question bank?
•Enumerate the need of question bank?
•Enlist the principles of question bank?
•Explain planning for question bank?
•Discuss the development of question bank?

23. DOUBTS??

24. ASSIGNMENT
Write an assignment on advantages and disadvantages of
question bank
Submit on:
Total marks: 10
Content : 8
Presentation: 2

25. Reference
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2013
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•Walsh JL. Formative student authored question bank: perceptions, question quality
and association with summative performance- pubmed.NCBI[Internet].
NCBI.nlm.nih.gov.2018

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