ICS Education Committee Activity
Writing Quality Questions: the Single Best Answer Format. ICS Faculty Development workshop
Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 09:00 - 12:00
Adrian Wagg, on behalf of the ICS Education Committee
0900 - 0915 Introduction and Objectives
0915 - 0945 The Single Best Answer format
0945 - 1015 ICS house style for SBA questions
1015 - 1030 Pitfalls and quality control
1030 - 1045 Coffee
1045 - 1130 Question writing in small groups
1130 - 1200 Feedback, group quality checking and wrap up
Learning objectives:
By completion of this workshop, the attendee will be able to:
• Demonstrate knowledge of the educational theory underlying the use of single best answer (best of five) questions
• Demonstrate an understanding of the ICS house style and the requirements for questions
• Gain experience, in a safe setting, of writing questions in ICS style
• Demonstrate ability to self check the quality of questions for submission to ICS
Please note that this session is free to attend but pre-registration is required. Please contact Ms. Daniela Bloch at dbloch@kenes.com in order to register. For further questions please contact the ICS Office at info@icsoffice.org