If you’re creating examinations in Moodle, the quiz feature is an amazing tool. But creating and managing items within your test banks can be a nuanced and complex responsibility. This presentation from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland’d (RCSI) Jane Holland focuses on best practices of creating, using and then analyzing test bank items within an online course (Moodle). The presentation covers
- Item writing (with a guide http://www.nbme.org/publications/item-writing-manual.html)
- Question types
- How questions fall on Bloom’s Taxonomy
- Moodle activities for supporting questions
- Technical flaws in items that you should be wary of
- Discrimination
- Classical Test Theory vs IRT
and much more. Continue through the end for some of the features of Moodle’s item analysis. Check out the full presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/MoodleMootIreland/dr-jane-hollanditem-writing-item-analysis-2014c
