ABSTRACT

Item banking involves tests being constructed by selecting from a bank of pre-written questions. There are various examples of multiple-choice tests where item banking is used, but few examples involving other question types. This research explored the use of banking with structured questions. Three question writers were asked to construct examination papers using a bank of structured physics questions and were interviewed. Factors considered when constructing examinations included the topic and skills to be assessed, the intended difficulty level of questions, and task type (e.g., definition, explanation, calculation, graph use). Participants’ strategies varied with one spending time viewing a range of questions, the second using information about the questions to narrow down which to view, and the third relying mostly on information about the questions. Several issues arose such as challenges around achieving the necessary total mark and potential wastage of questions if the topics in a syllabus change.

摘要

题库涉及通过从一堆预先编写的问题中进行选择来构建测试。有使用项目银行的多项选择测试的各种示例，但是很少涉及其他问题类型的示例。这项研究探索了具有结构性问题的银行业务的使用。要求三位问题作者使用一堆结构化物理问题来构建试卷，并接受采访。构建考试时要考虑的因素包括要评估的主题和技能，问题的预期难度级别以及任务类型（例如，定义，解释，计算，图表使用）。参与者的策略各不相同，其中一个花费时间来查看一系列问题，第二个则使用有关问题的信息来缩小查看范围，第三个主要依靠有关问题的信息。出现了一些问题，例如围绕实现必要的总成绩的挑战，以及如果课程大纲中的主题发生变化，可能会浪费问题。