The real beauty of Cronin's prototype system, however, is that it allows the printer not only to control the sequences and exact calibration of inks, but also to shape, from a tested blueprint, the environment in which those reactions take place.
After developing a test blueprint, 52 test items were written.
How well this exam captured the major content areas of the SUN program was investigated by constructing a test blueprint.
All tests were developed using a test blueprint that maps each test item to the corresponding course objective and are reviewed by a panel of teachers prior to administration.
Items were selected from the courses' summative exams administered in the initial two years of the program, which had acceptable psychometric characteristics and covered the courses' content through a test blueprint obtained by consensus.
It comprises four sub-steps: (1) developing a test blueprint; (2) writing test items; (3) validating the question bank draft by external reviewers; and (4) analyzing the validation survey results and generating a subset of the question bank that will be used in the second phase of the SCT validation process, i.e., the establishment of a scoring grid.
A TOS is a test blueprint that shows how the teacher came up with test questions (e.g., number of questions per topic relative to the amount of time it was taught, the level of thinking skills [knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, or evaluation] the student will employ to answer a question).
The tests consist of two hundred true/false items with DKO, covering the complete domain of radiology, as defined in a test blueprint distinguishing nine subdomains: abdominal radiology, neuroradiology, thoracic radiology, musculoskeletal radiology, pediatric radiology, head and neck radiology, cardiovascular and breast imaging.
The 45 day plan offers (in addition to the 15 day plan) "initial buzz building," and a range of design services including basic prototyping, usability testing, blueprints, concept mapping and other design services.
(See Table 3 for a summary and Supplemental Figure S1 for the test blueprint).
Basically, after experts develop the test blueprint and write test items, a validation survey should be established and then sent to external reviewers.
