Question Item Banking
Question Item Banking
Use your questions again and again with a secure and comprehensive item banking system
We support organisations moving to an online question item banking system
Many assessment providers are considering item banking to get more value out of their questions. When done right, it’s great way to scale-up test production and futureproof your organisation. We help test developers to get more value out of their assets and streamline their authoring with a secure and user-friendly question item banking system.
Your testing strategy could benefit from item banking if…
- You spend a huge amount of time and energy getting tests ready to go, only for them to be used once and never looked at again.
- You can’t easily create practice papers or low-stakes practice versions of papers for candidates.
- When you do re-use content, you aren’t sure where and when it was used before.
- Un-used items that were of a good standard often remain un-used.
- Your saved questions are kept in a non-standard format, so searching for past items is time consuming.
GradeMaker Pro gives you...
- An unlimited storage capacity for your items.
- Strong security systems with rigorously tested infrastructure and two-factor authentication.
- A wealth of information stored with every item, allowing you to construct customised exam papers in minutes.
- Ways to organise your content according to subject, level, syllabus, assessment objectives, and more.
- Ability to import performance data and add anchor items in your tests.
- A powerful item search tool, so you can find items used in specified tests, items in a particular difficulty range or items mapped to a particular sub-topic or assessment outcome.
There is an easier way to store and organise your questions. We make item banking work for you.
As a test developer using GradeMaker, you will:
- Be in complete control of all your item content and extract real value from it long term.
- Be able to easily save, organise and search all questions and their accompanying assets.
- Execute your organisation’s IRT-based quality model by adding pre-test data and anchor items.
- Be confident that your questions are secure, with nothing confidential being worked on outside your approved system.
- Construct tailored tests from your item bank, ensuring the right students receive the right tests.
