This document discusses question banks, which are collections of questions prepared for a given subject. It defines a question bank as a planned library of test items designed to fulfill certain purposes. The document outlines the characteristics, purposes, principles, and uses of question banks. It also discusses the need for question banks and how they can improve the teaching and evaluation processes by providing teachers and examiners with a pool of quality questions to assess students. Finally, it briefly touches on e-trends in question banks and the role of e-teachers in an increasingly digital educational environment.

1. Question bank
Submitted by: Qurratulain Munawwar

2. content
1. Introduction
2. Defination
3. Characteristics
4. Purposes
5. Need
6. Principles
7. Use
8. E-trend in question bank
9. Truth of E-teachers
10. E-teachers
11. reference

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

4. DEFINATION
“ Question bank is library containing
hundreds of questions you can add to your
surveys in seconds. It is a planned library
of test items designed to full fill certain
predetermined purposes. Question bank
should be prepared with at most care so as
to cover entire content prescribed text.
Question bank should be exhaustive and
cover entire content with different types.”
R.H worm

5. Cont..
A collection of questions prepare for a
given subject and useful for students and
teachers. They are offen made available
on the internet.

6. CHARACTERISTICS OF QUESTION BANK:-
 Question bank should be based on sound ideas, purposes &
adapted to the particular objective of mind.
 Question bank should be within the range of the students
experiences & knowledge.
 Question bank should present a challenged with stimulates an
educative response in keeping with the objectives.
 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.

7. Question bank is a continuous process.
Question bank is based on action.
Question bank present for any particular
course, level, language. Selected category
and type of Questions.
Question bank maintains records of any no.
of questions with their answers in all the
languages with their corresponding courses
categories and levels.

8.  To improve the teaching process.
 Through instructional efforts the pupil’s growth will be
obtained.
 To improve evaluation process.
 A pool of test items can be used for formative and
summative evaluation of the pupil’s performance.
 It is a pool of ready made quality question is made
available to teachers and examiners. So that they may
select appropriate questions to assess predetermined.
Purpose

9. Need
•Before the test, the teachers are generally
not getting adequate time to prepare the
questions. Naturally in the absence of
adequate time.
•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.

10. • What type of questions made up the bank
entirely depends on the total frame of
refrence envisaged at the planning stage
the scope of question bank is determined
by taking such decisions.

11. • Blue printing the question bank
• Writing the question
• Screening of question
• Preparing the question cards
• Coding the questions
• Filling and storage of question

12. Principles
•Spent adequate amount of time for the developing the
question.
•Match the question to the content
•Try to make the question valid, reliable and balanced.
•Use a variety of testing methods.
•Write questions that test skills and 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.
•Their difficulty level should be appreciated to the group of
learners being tested

13. Use of question bank
• Question may be used for pre-testing,
development, review and revision of a lesson.
• When question bank are established in schools,
students can use them for self evaluation in their
spare time.
• It can be utilized fort preparing review exercises
in textbooks
• It is useful to evaluate pupil’s progress by sorting
and grouping the individual questions in unit

14. •E-trends and questions bank:
• they address a specific learning goal
• they make students aware of opinions other
than their own
• they reveal any misconceptions or
confusion
• they enable the exploration of ideas in a
new context
• they elicit a wide range of responses

15. •Internet has started reshaping education
•There is no going back.
•It is store house of communication, information,
training, knowledge and performance.
Truth of E-learning

16. E-teachers
•E-teachers work on internet both in virtual
environment and regular classes. They build new
concepts of working in time and space. They find
new learning resources as they interact with
information, materials and ideas with their
students.

17. Reference
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www.ignou.ac, www.ncme.org
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• http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-SHAA200504032.htm