CON Professional Graduate Test Construction and Delivery: Difference between revisions
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<p style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;">Testing processes have been established to ensure consistency in testing practices for didactic course content.</p> | <p style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;">Testing processes have been established to ensure consistency in testing practices for didactic course content.</p> | ||
===Exam Construction=== | ===Exam Construction=== | ||
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<li> | <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">All professional graduate courses that include tests/exams as part of summative evaluation must administer exams with no fewer than 50 multiple-choice questions per test. </li> | ||
</ | <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Course coordinators may determine the weight of test/exam scores within the final course grade; however, exams must comprise no less than 20% and no more than 50% of the total course grade. </li> | ||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Faculty must develop and share with students an exam blueprint outlining tested concepts and approximate question distribution at least one week prior to the exam. </li> | |||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Faculty must provide a rationale for each exam question within the approved testing platform. </li> | |||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Exam questions shall be retired after five years of use or earlier if psychometric analysis does not support continued use. See test question review table below. </li> | |||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Questions must align with board-style formatting, including: | |||
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<li>No true/false questions </li> | |||
<li>Avoid negatively worded stems </li> | |||
<li>Avoid absolute terms (e.g., “always,” “never”) </li> | |||
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<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Questions must be free of bias, stereotyping, slang or prejudicial language. </li> | |||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Faculty must design and deliver exams in a manner that minimizes opportunities for unauthorized use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as the use of application-based questions, appropriate time limits, randomized item delivery, and approved remote proctoring settings. </li> | |||
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===Pre-Exam=== | ===Pre-Exam=== | ||
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