Process
UMAP is a collaborative project where each member school contributes equal effort and resource to the development of a written assessment item bank dedicated to MCQs and extending matching questions (EMQs) items. Each partner hosts question writing training workshops, facilitated by the central project team. Invited item authors are members of either NHS or university staff. Items are brought forward into the item bank in draft form before being allocated for editing and approval by one of UMAP's many question quality assurance teams. Items are fed back into the bank with those being approved where they are ready for use in any notified high stakes examination taking place at a partner medical school. Partner schools select a range of items from the UMAP bank in advance of an examination and scrutinise these in order to achieve the correct mix of items for the intended examination. Anonymous examination results are later fed back to UMAP so that item analysis can be undertaken, removing any items from further use if necessary. Feedback is then returned to the original authors including the proportion of correct student answers per each item usage instance.
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