Articles on Assessment

Constructing Written Test Questions For the Basic and Clinical Sciences
"This manual was written to help faculty members improve the quality of the multiple-choice questions written for their examinations. The manual provides an overview of item formats, concentrating on the traditional one-best-answer and matching formats. It reviews issues related to technical item flaws and issues related to item content.....The examples focus on undergraduate medical education, though the general approach to item writing may be useful for assessing examinees at other levels." 181 pages

Good tips on contructing multiple choice (one-best-answer) questions.

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Contributed by Darren Kuropatwa

Websites on Assessment

The Great Assessment Problems book (GAP)
From the CATCH website (Classroom Assessment as a Basis for Teacher Change). All twelve chapters of the first version of the GAP book are available online.

Contributed by Darren Kuropatwa

Classroom Assessment Techniques

This website lists practical, deeply relevent assessment practices that you can apply immediately in your calssroom. "Classroom Assessment is a simple method faculty can use to collect feedback, early and often, on how well their students are learning what they are being taught. The purpose of classroom assessment is to provide faculty and students with information and insights needed to improve teaching effectiveness and learning quality." All this, material is available online. I furled it too; just in case. ;-)

Contributed by Darren Kuropatwa