QUESTION BANK PREPARATION

MEANING
Question bank refers to a set of questions available for a particular subject or
for a entire subject in a course
It includes a two or more question papers of a subject which was prepared
specialist from various colleges

DEFINITION
A question bank is a planned library of test items designed to fulfill a certain
predetermined purposes. (George 1987)

ARRANGEMENT OF QUESTION BANK

The questions may be arranged is as follows
 objective/behaviour aspects{abilities in cognitive ,and affective domains}
 content/subject area aspect
 form of question aspect like essay type, short notes and objective type
 weightage aspect

CHARACTERISTICS
Characteristics of a Good Questionnaire by Dr. Kenneth B. Hunt
1. Questions worded simply and clearly, not ambiguous or vague, must be objective
2. Attractive in appearance (questions spaced out, and neatly arranged)
3. Write a descriptive title for the questionnaire
4. Write an introduction to the questionnaire
5. Order questions in logical sequence
6. Keep questionnaire uncluttered and easy to complete
7. Delicate questions last (especially demographic questions
8. Design for easy tabulation
9. Design to achieve objectives
10. Define terms
11. Avoid double negatives (I haven't no money)
12. Avoid double barreled questions (this AND that)
13. Avoid loaded questions ("Have you stopped beating your wife?")
14. Phrase questions for all respondents

PRINCIPLES AND STEPS IN QUESTION BANK PREPARATION

The principles and steps in question bank preparation are based on the principles and
steps in evaluation
Preparation of the questions should be based on both
1. student centered
2. subject centered
Principles of evaluation:
• Evaluation is a continuous process
• objectives of evaluation must be stated clearly before evaluation is made
• techniques should be selected in terms of the purposes to be served
• comprehensive evaluation requires a variety of evaluation techniques
• Proper use of evaluation technique require an awareness of their limitations as well as
on their strength
• Evaluation is a means to an end and not an end itself
• Contribute to improved decisions of instruction guidance and administrative nature

Steps in evaluation

The criteria of educational objectives

Development and use of measuring tool

Interpretation of measuring data

Formulation of judgments and taking appropriate

action

HOW TO PREPARE QUESTION

The preparation of question should based on the following
 objective type questions
 MCQ
 True & False
 match the following
 sentence completion
 fill up the blanks
 one word answers
 short notes
 essay types
Objective type questions
Types:
Supply type
short answer type
completion type
selection type
 True or false
Matching Type
Multiple Choice
Supply tests:
1.1 short answer type
eg who is the father of our nation?
who was the first prime minister of india?
1.2 completion type
eg the formula for ordinary common salt is________
Selection type
2.1 true and false
eg a virus is small organism T/F
2.2 multiple choice
eg which element is the blood carries oxygen to blood
a) plasma b) hemoglobin c) globulin d) fibrinogen
2.3Matching type
A B
1. National animal a. peacock
2. National flower b. tiger
3. National bird c. mahatma gandhi
4. Father of our d. lotus
nation
• Short notes
eg write short notes on psoriasis
• Essay type
eg write breifly about myocardial infarction

PURPOSES OF QUESTION BANK

1. To improve teaching learning process
2. Pupils growth will be obtained through instructional efforts
3. To improve evaluative process
4. A pool of test items can be used for summative and formative assessment
5. It is a pool of ready made quality questions is made available to teachers and
examiners so that they may select appropriate questions to assess predetermined
objectives
SELECTION OF APPROPRIATE QUESTIONS
Based on following three steps
a. Item Analysis
b. Expert Opinion
c. Moderation of Panel
Item analysis procedure
• Rank the papers in order from the highest to the lowest score.
• Divide these papers, approximately into three groups.
• First group- the top scorers 1/3 according to rank.
 • Second group- average scorers 1/3
• Third group- the low scorers 1/3 according to rank.
• For each test item tabulate the number of pupils on the upper and the lower
groups who selected each alternative.
• To illustrate, let us suppose that we have corrected 45 papers of a test.
• Rank the papers in order from the highest to the lowest score.
• Select 15 papers with the highest scores and 15 papers with the lowest scores.
• For each test item tabulate the number of pupils on the upper and the lower
groups who selected each alternative.
• For example, suppose 15 from the upper group and 7 from the lower group
selected the right alternative out of the 30 papers, that makes a total of 22
out of 30.
• This result show that the item has got a low level of difficulty.
• Since more pupils in the upper group got the answers correct, it reveals that
the test item is discriminating positively.
• When all the alternatives of an item are selected by pupils in the lower group,
it is concluded that the distracters had operated effectively.
Opinion from expert
• Getting opinion about the validity and reliability of prepared questions from experts
from different questions
• Avoiding unnecessary questions which is not useful
• Giving importance to needed questions
Modulation by panel
• Making arrangement of questions according to type
– For eg
• Objective type questions
• Short answers
• Essay type questions