Meredith, D. B. (2012, June), Test Preparation and Test Quality Assessment: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me in the Beginning  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--22031

\bibitem{asee_peer_22031}
  Meredith, D. B. (2012, June), \emph{Test Preparation and Test Quality Assessment: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me in the Beginning}
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--22031

David B. Meredith.  "Test Preparation and Test Quality Assessment: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me in the Beginning".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/22031 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_22031}
  David B. Meredith.
  "Test Preparation and Test Quality Assessment: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me in the Beginning".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/22031 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

@INPROCEEDINGS{asee_peer_22031
author = "David B. Meredith"
title = "Test Preparation and Test Quality Assessment: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me in the Beginning"
booktitle = "2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition"
year = "2012"
month = "June"
address = "San Antonio, Texas"
publisher = "ASEE Conferences"
note = {https://peer.asee.org/22031}
number = {10.18260/1-2--22031}
}

TY  - CPAPER
AB  -                       Test Preparation and Test Quality Assessment –                     What I Wish Someone Had Told Me in the BeginningHow does an instructor prepare a test and feel confident that it is fair, balanced and the correct length? That issueworried me as I entered the teaching profession three decades ago. After a decade of writing multiple choicequestions for the Professional Engineering exam and two decades of national involvement with the ABETaccreditation process, it is time to pass some of the “tricks of the trade” along to the next generation of newfaculty members.As a starting point for this discussion, the assumption that course outcomes have been linked to not only Programoutcomes but also ABET outcomes will be reviewed. While discussing the selection of an appropriate evaluationmethod, I will also discuss some of the topics that do NOT lend themselves to timed tests. Suggestions onalternative methods of evaluation for those topics will be offered.This paper will focus on how to prepare good True/False and Multiple Choice questions to test knowledge andskill. It will also present a simplified version of the method psychometricians use to evaluate the quality of thesetypes of exam questions for both difficulty and discrimination. Since many engineering and technology questionsinvolve calculations, a test evaluation method that works for me will be discussed. This method is a good firststep to demonstrate course improvement to ABET. Since much of how we teach is driven by ABET criteria andthe need for continuous quality improvement, this experience should prove valuable to new faculty who maynever have prepared for an ABET visit.
AU  - David B. Meredith
CY  - San Antonio, Texas
DA  - 2012/06/10
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Test Preparation and Test Quality Assessment: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me in the Beginning
UR  - https://peer.asee.org/22031
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--22031
ER  -