Creating large-scale test banks: a briefing for participative discussion of issues and agendas

This participative discussion will focus on the methodologies to be used for the production of a large-scale data bank of questions for use in all forms of assessment in higher education. This paper outlines some of the social and technical issues that the discussion will consider. It covers both the problems of building such a resource, and the rationale and methods of providing test bank data for a wide range of question delivery tools and methods.