Banking Strategies and Software Solutions for Generated Test Items

Tahereh Firoozi, Mark Gierl

2025

Abstract

Automatic item generation is a scalable item development approach that can be used to produce large numbers of test items. Banking strategies and software solutions are required to organize and manage large numbers of generated items. The purpose of our paper is to describe an organizational structure and different management strategies that rely on appending items with descriptive information using content codes. Content codes contain descriptive data that can be used to identify and differentiate generated items. We present a modern approach to banking that allows the generated items to be managed at both the item and model level. We also demonstrate how a content coding system at both the item and model level provides the user with the ability to execute many different types of searches including accessing one content-specific item from one model, multiple content-specific items from one model, one content-specific item from multiple models, and multiple content-specific items from multiple models. These examples help demonstrate that content coding is a fundamental concept that must be implemented when attempting to organize and manage generated test items.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Firoozi T. and Gierl M. (2025). Banking Strategies and Software Solutions for Generated Test Items. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: AIG; ISBN 978-989-758-746-7, SciTePress, pages 779-784. DOI: 10.5220/0013491000003932

in Bibtex Style

@conference{aig25,
author={Tahereh Firoozi and Mark Gierl},
title={Banking Strategies and Software Solutions for Generated Test Items},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: AIG},
year={2025},
pages={779-784},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013491000003932},
isbn={978-989-758-746-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: AIG
TI - Banking Strategies and Software Solutions for Generated Test Items
SN - 978-989-758-746-7
AU - Firoozi T.
AU - Gierl M.
PY - 2025
SP - 779
EP - 784
DO - 10.5220/0013491000003932
PB - SciTePress