9:00 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, June 22 and June 23, 1999
 
Writing Good Test Questions, Banking them Electronically, and Adding Multimedia Resources.
Room 307, Scott Memorial Library. 
 
Priority on Tuesday will be given toGRIPE members until May 22.  On Tuesday, 
Regina Kreisle, from Purdue University will also demonstrate the GRIPE pathology question 
bank that uses a FileMaker Pro template she developed.
 
The session will be repeated on Wednesday.
 
Registrants and GRIPEers ($150), non-registrants ($200). Lunch included.
Pre-registration Required. Space Limited
 
INSTRUCTORS: Susan M. Case and David B. Swanson, National Board of Medical
Examiners,Philadelphia, PA, Susan Roberts and Valerie Craigle from
Knowledge Weavers, University of Utah, David McHaffie, Wellington School of
Medicine, New Zealand, Tim Fitzharris, Medical School, University of South
Carolina, and Larry Fabrey from LXR*TEST 5.1 Software, Alta Loma, CA
 
Hands-On: Pentiums PCs with Windows.
 
Who Should Attend: If you are interersted in writing better questions,
particularly of the clinical sets type, banking them in a computer program
for paper or electronic delivery, collecting question and exam statistics,
and adding multimedia elements to your questions then this is the workshop
for you. If you are computer-phobic we can pair you with someone who is
not.
 
Synopsis: First the experts will analyze questions: both good and bad. Attendees 
will be provided with a copy of the manual Susan and David wrote,
Constructing Written Test Questions for the Basic and Clinical Sciences .
Next, working in pairs you will discover it is not so easy to do. (You do
not need a Ph.D. or MD to do this, you can write questions on .any topic.)
The groups will critique their questions. Next you will learn how to enter
your questions into a commercial software program that has options for a
variety of formats. Selecting from the Knowledge Weavers encyclopedia of
clip art you can add heart sounds, an animation, graph, photo or a patient
movie. At the end of the session you will hopefully be a better question
writer, be able to keep track of your questions, gather statistics so you
can improve them and bring them to life with multimedia. At the end of the
day the group will insights and frustrations. LXR*TEST(Logic Extension
Resources), the technical division of Applied Measurement Professionals
(AMP) will provide us with the software.