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The
Office of Educational Development offers testing and assessment consultation
for course directors through the use of the item management system and
assistance with construction and analysis of instruments that are administered
and scored through other resources.
AIMS:
Assessment & Item Management System
System
Features
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networked
with password protected access to course director or his/her designee
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four-level
categorization by organ system, interdisciplinary course designation,
content and keyword/s
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facilitates
review of test items across courses and content areas
Assessment
Instrument Features
- HTML and copy-ready
versions of tests
- draft version
contains item statistics, correct answer
- single best answer,
true/false, extended matching, and essay formats
- unlimited linkages
to clinical vignettes and/or images.
- cumulative and
single administration descriptive statistics and item analyses
- answer justification,
learning objective, author, and date created and last used for each
item
- items may be selected
by multiple parameters (discrimination/difficulty indices, category,
item type, etc.)
- random selection
of items
Administrative
Features
- generates score
reports for course directors
- authors of test
items have editorial rights to their questions and reader-only rights
to questions authored by others
- produces electronic
grade file for use by the registrar
- produces personal
profile for each student (paper or data base accessible through the
School of Medicine web site)
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Consultation assistance
available for:
- Assistance with item writing
- Development of testing instruments
- Interpretation of test results and item analyses
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To request the use of the item management
system or for a consultation please contact:
Linda Fisher 843-9214
lfisher@med.unc.edu
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