ItemBanker 6.0 has now been released and is full of benefits and functionality to make exam storage and printing easier than ever.

ItemBanking Component:

• A lot of programs can store exam items but the power of ItemBanker comes in its ability to allow you to edit, manipulate and retrieve items based on the selection criteria you specify.  Select items based on difficulty and/or discrimination indices, objective, taxonomy, author, special references and more. 

• The new ItemBanker hierarchical structure reflects the content outline of a curriculum or course

• An unlimited number of topic/subject tables can be created

• An unlimited number of sub-topic tables can be created within a topic

• An unlimited number of items can be contained in a subtopic table

• Item identifying information is easily viewed and edited

• Item types include:

  o       Multiple choice

  o       True/false

  o       Short answer

  o       Fill-in-the-blank Super-List mode

• Use a wide variety of graphics images attached to the items

• New FLASH technology for video (computer delivered exams)

• Multiple exam delivery modes are available:

  o       Paper-pencil exams

  o       Computer-delivered exams

  o       Computer-delivered surveys and evaluations.

  o       Paper-pencil surveys and evaluations

Item Bank Search Functionality:

• “Cyber-Stats Monitor” monitors the difficulty and discrimination indices as you add or delete items to your tests.  Exams can be tailored for levels of difficulty.

• No "search" programming is required by exam writers or developers.  Built in search functionality makes finding data easy.

• Many popular database queries are pre-programmed and ready to use.  Relational queries possible.

• Search the item banks on content fields or other fields separately or in a combined fashion.

• Search and select your items within specified ranges of difficulty and discrimination

• Search and select your items based on any of the supplied identifying fields:

  ·        Serial numbers

  ·        Difficulty index

  ·        Discrimination index

  ·        Author

  ·        Taxonomy

  ·        Objective

  ·        Discipline (domain)

  ·        Exam dates

  ·        Reference

  ·        Image links

  ·        Audio Links

  ·        Video Links

Printing Tests:

• Complete control over the printed characteristics of your tests.

• Individual questions (by author) can be searched and printed for easy viewing of question performance and track record.

• Quickly query and print a detailed report on item statistics

• Print an answer key 

Optional Statistical Software: ItemCruncher:

• ItemCruncher can be integrated with ItemBanker to run statistics from exams (computer-delivered or paper pencil results).

• ItemCruncher statistical reports come in easy-to-read and understandable formats.