Step 1 Plan your assessment

· Decide on the purpose – diagnostic test, weekly assessment, end of term exam

· Choose question types you want to use

· Consider feedback/links

· Consider time limits, plan for conditional assessment

Step 2 Create question bank

· Create topics before you start adding question

· Use different question types, do not simplify your assessment to MCQ only

· Consider randomising order of answers for MCQ and MRQ questions

Step 3 Design assessment

· Choose what questions from what topics you want to include in one assessment

· Consider the time limit for the assessment

· Add feedback for formative assessment

· Consider conditional assessment options

Step 4 Verification/peer review

· Create a test assessment to include all your questions with marking and feedback

· Schedule this test assessment to yourself and colleagues, attempt all question, check marking schema and feedback

· Schedule the normal assessment to yourself and colleagues to mirror the student experience

Test assessment whether it works properly:

• Are you happy with the layout/design?
• Are you using the accessibility functions?
• Do you need a special character palette?
• Is the scoring correct?
• Is the feedback correct?
• Are there alternative answers that are correct as well?
• Is the time setting correct?

· Mark this assessment as approved, so it is ready for students

Step 5 Scheduling

• Start and end time for the assessment
• Do you require Secure exam delivery
• List of users taking the exam
• List of users with extra time
• Is there a time limit for the exam/assessment
• Number of attempts
• Room booking (if required)
• Do you need headphones or other equipment?

Step 6 Delivery

· Students will receive an email confirming start/end time of the assessment

Step 7 Reports

· QM Perception users with admin rights on the assessment can pull the results and create reports as soon as the students have finalised the assessment. Reporting functionalities include:

• Demographics filter
• Question item performance analysis
• User grouping to compare different sets of students
• Breakdown of results by assessment, topic or item

The results can be downloaded in HTML, PDF or CSV.

Have a look at the analytics features in this short video

Step 8 Assessment review

· Can be done using QMP assessment review and question performance tools.

Revise the questions and assessment critically and amend accordingly:

• Have a close look at questions with a particularly high and particularly low item level performance: Where they too hard/easy? Could there be a misunderstanding? Could there be alternative correct answers?
• Did students complain about a certain question or aspect of the assessment? Is the complaint justified? How could it be resolved? (No need to necessarily give in.)
• Will you change the content of the lecture? Change the questions accordingly.
• Are there new features in QM Perception which you can make use of?
• Has the course literature changed to which you make reference in the feedback? Please change the feedback accordingly.