UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
Explore opportunities to connect with NBME staff at the events below
NBME Item-Writing Workshop
NBME Virtual Workshop
Monday, February 10, 2025
Item-Writing Workshops give you the tools to develop exam questions that more effectively test your examinees’ knowledge. They are designed and administered by a team of internationally recognized experts in the fields of test development, psychometrics, and medical education research. Whether you’re new to the process of developing exam items or have years of experience, we’ll teach you skills and techniques that you can apply immediately on your own assessments.
Introduction to Measurement Concepts: Validity and Reliability
NBME Virtual Workshop
Monday, March 3, 2025
In this interactive workshop, you will learn the fundamental measurement concepts of reliability and validity. We will cover the importance of identifying the intended purpose and use of an assessment, how an assessment’s intended purpose and use relate to the validity of its test scores, and why score reliability is critical in supporting the claims and inference we make about examinees. You will also learn approaches to assess reliability and collect validity evidence throughout the assessment design and evaluation process.
NBME Item-Writing Workshop
NBME Virtual Workshop
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Item-Writing Workshops give you the tools to develop exam questions that more effectively test your examinees’ knowledge. They are designed and administered by a team of internationally recognized experts in the fields of test development, psychometrics, and medical education research. Whether you’re new to the process of developing exam items or have years of experience, we’ll teach you skills and techniques that you can apply immediately on your own assessments.
Using Item Analysis Results to Improve Assessments
NBME Virtual Workshop
Monday, June 2 & Monday, June 9, 2025
In NBME’s Item-Writing Workshops, participants learn how to write, review and revise multiple-choice questions (MCQs) to assess clinical and foundational sciences. But how do we know that the MCQs we have written are behaving as intended? Are they easy or hard? Are they differentiating between examinees who perform well on the overall test from those who perform poorly? How do we know whether it is okay to include an MCQ on an exam form? These are questions that an item analysis can help answer. In this workshop, you will learn how to calculate and interpret item statistics for MCQs and how to use them in the assessment development process.