"devising tests" is appropriate for written English.
You can use it in any context where you need to refer to coming up with tests or exams, such as when writing a scientific article or research paper. For example, "The researchers went about devising tests to measure the effects of the experiment."
Consideration of this possibility may be instructive in relation to the psychopathological components underlying differential DSM diagnoses and for devising, testing and utilising therapeutic approaches developed primarily for one or the other set of clinical manifestations.
Her most recent research devised tests which showed that children as young as three begin to categorise the world by gender.
Athletes use drugs to enhance their performances, scientists devise tests to identify those drugs, then the athletes move on to more sophisticated doping techniques.
At that time, there was no service industry on the island, so Mr. Wangeman devised tests to decide who had aptitude for certain jobs.
But industry experts say it is hard for new companies to come in because of shortages of specialized personnel, especially the psychometricians who devise tests and monitor their validity.
David Biltchik, a consultant in Washington, worked with Italian producers, scientists, diplomats and American officials to devise tests that would convince the Agriculture Department that Parma hams, which are cured for 400 days, posed no threat to American lives.
Once the virus and its antigen were found, Dr Blumberg and his team devised tests for it, so that donors could be screened before giving the blood that often transmitted the infection.
And once armed with the drug, you have to devise tests that reveal what type of cancer someone has, in order to find out whether the drug will work in his case.
