Question Bank

This workshop aims to equip educators, assessment coordinators, and academic leaders with the skills and knowledge needed to design, develop, and manage high-quality Question Banks that strengthen assessment practices in higher education. Through interactive activities, case-based discussions, and hands-on item-writing exercises, participants will explore the principles and processes that underpin fair, reliable, and competency-aligned assessment systems.

The workshop highlights the critical role of Question Banks as structured repositories that support standardization, enhance examination quality, and promote transparency in student evaluation. Participants will examine best practices in item writing, blueprinting, peer review, and psychometric analysis, gaining practical tools to create and maintain robust and scalable question pools. Emphasis will be placed on aligning questions with learning outcomes and competency frameworks, ensuring consistency with accreditation standards, and utilizing technology for secure storage, retrieval, and large-scale assessment delivery.

In addition, the workshop addresses common challenges educators face—such as constructing valid items, ensuring content balance, and maintaining question security—and offers strategies to build sustainable, evidence-based assessment systems that drive continuous curriculum improvement.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Explain the purpose, structure, and essential components of effective Question Banks within higher education assessment.

• Differentiate between various item types (MCQs, EMQs, SAQs) and their roles in evaluating knowledge, skills, and competencies.

• Apply principles of high-quality item writing, including clarity, validity, reliability, and alignment with learning outcomes.

• Construct assessment blueprints that map questions to curriculum objectives and competency domains.

• Evaluate the quality of assessment items using psychometric techniques such as difficulty index, discrimination index, and distractor efficiency.

• Develop and maintain a secure, structured, and scalable Question Bank aligned with national and international accreditation expectations.

• Utilize digital platforms and learning management systems to support secure question storage, randomization, and online assessment delivery.

• Design a small-scale Question Bank for a specific course or program, ensuring coherence and constructive alignment.

• Reflect on challenges and propose strategies for sustaining fairness, transparency, and quality in Question Bank–based assessments across diverse contexts.

Through this workshop, participants will enhance their capacity to design credible, data-driven assessment systems that support competency development, ensure accountability, and advance the overall quality and integrity of academic programs.

– LIMU teaching staff.

– Other Universities staff