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Assessments included hand-picked questions from the Cengage Publisher test bank.
The use of highly protected publisher test banks can disproportionately impact on these students.
The cognitive level of the questions in publisher test banks is often at the recall level, as discussed above.
Additionally, there is often little security around the storage of test bank questions, and students usually have access to the same publisher test bank questions as academic staff when they purchase the textbook.
The literature also indicates some of the challenges involved in the use of online tests such as the widespread use of publisher test banks focused on euro-centric knowledge contexts and the overrepresentation of online test questions that assess low levels of cognition.
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As a security measure, some online publisher tests can only be accessed in versions of the textbook that include a specific code.
There are also issues around the cost and accessibility of publishers' test banks.
Their findings point to a greater need for scrutiny of questions from publishers' test banks.
Indeed, while lecturers expect that questions contained in publishers' test banks will all function correctly, are error-free and are well written, this is not always the case.
Ibbett and Wheldon (2016)) identify a number of flaws that are associated with construction of MCQs, particularly those sourced from publishers' test banks.
This area of research is particularly needed given the internationalisation of higher education in terms of curricula and student mobility yet the extensive reliance of Anglo-centric publishers' test banks in the development of online tests.
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