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Evaluation Reforms

e) Answer key should be provided
f) Each question may be appended with suitable codes to indicate the learning outcome
mapped to, the topic in the syllabus that it examines, the difficulty level and the
discrimination ability.
Institutions are advised to conduct workshops to be attended by subject matter experts who shall
pool their expertise to generate questions. Question banks that are prepared should be subject
to proof reading of text by forming an appropriate committee. Procedure for regular (yearly)
revision of the question bank must be undertaken to increase its validity. About 20 % of the
questions must be changed every year either to keep pace with changes in domain areas or due
to syllabus revisions. Faculty members have to be trained in preparation of question banks.

6.3 Procedure

The following procedure may be adopted to develop a question bank:

• Specifying Objectives/ Learning Outcomes to be tested. It should cover the entire
hierarchy of learning objectives as specified by Bloom and Anderson.

• Deciding the question format

• Writing or pooling of questions by panel of experts
• Review of questions

• Sample group testing/ pilot test
• Assessment of difficulty and discrimination ability of the questions

• Final Selection of questions for the question Bank

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