I know how much we all enjoy slamming test banks but I must say that we are not being entirely fair. I agree that there are plenty of terrible questions in test banks (not even counting the bad questions created by typos). This is why I never create a test by randomly selecting questions from the test bank. However, test banks contain plenty of well-written questions that assess basic knowledge. You can even find questions that do a good job of assessing understanding of concepts and application of theory. There are also weak and misleading questions that can be turned into great questions if you are willing to do some thoughtful editing. I could write all of these questions myself, but I doubt the questions I would write would be significantly different in form or content from those in the test bank. I don't see the point of writing yet another question to evaluate a student's knowledge when perfectly good questions are available in a test bank. By not spending time writing these questions, I gain time to spend time writing additional questions about new material I've added to the class. In case you are wondering, no, I have not written any test banks. Claudia ________________________________________________________ Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Psychology Phone: (850) 474 - 3163 University of West Florida FAX: (850) 857 - 6060 Pensacola, FL 32514 - 5751 Web: http://www.uwf.edu/psych/stanny.html
