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• Job Analysis
• Question Writing
• Question Review
• Question Validation
• Exam Building
• Standard Setting
• Exam Administration
• Statistical Analysis

 

Exam Building

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Piecing together the complex puzzle of an exam

Building a high-stakes exam typically involves selecting questions that fit certain criteria and placing them appropriately, much like a complicated jigsaw puzzle. Very often, organizations have an expert panel spread the stack of questions on a conference table and manually select the questions. Although effective, this process is time consuming and can be prone to errors due to data entry or management.

ExamDeveloper attempts to improve this process in two ways. First, ExamDeveloper makes the process more efficient by suggesting "draft" exam versions based on criteria specified for the project. With the push of one button, up to five versions of the exam can be developed that meet up to five criteria.

Second, ExamDeveloper simplifies the review process for the expert panel by automating the question tabulation and data management. When the panel changes a question selection, the system evaluates the exam blueprint to make sure the new question fits the requirements. In addition, the panel can see a real-time tally of the questions selected (and still needed) to fulfill the exam blueprint.  

Because these features are exclusive to ExamDeveloper, you will not be able to achieve this level of sophistication and automation for assembling an exam with any other software package.

What's more, easy-to-follow tutorials guide the user through the entire process so there is no room for error.

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Keep things simple to hold on to your sanity

The degree of complexity in building an exam depends heavily on the number of criteria you specify for your exam blueprint.

For example, every question must be tagged to a particular statement in the content (JTA) outline. This means that there must contain a specific number of questions from each statement. By adding criteria to this specification (content outline x cognitive level x etc.), the blueprint can become multi-dimensional, with each cell requiring a specific number of questions.

Instead of creating a multi-dimensional structure, it is better to require the tabulation be strictly enforced for the content outline and create "global targets" for the other criteria. 

More information can be found in the tutorials built into the application.