Middle East professional exam programme owners are set to discuss how to improve the quality of exam questions, while reducing development costs through greater collaboration between experts.

The free webinar, which will take place on April 28, will also feature a discussion about how to build efficiencies for content development work flows and how remote collaboration on question authoring using ExamDeveloper software can overcome these challenges, alongside the other parts of test development such as robust question banking and standard-setting, said a statement.

The software will allow subject matter experts to work together in a financially feasible way online, it said.

Matthew Poyiadgi, vice president of EMEA at Pearson VUE, the computer-based testing company hosting the webinar, said: “Following our recent assessment and certification workshop in Dubai where test owners discussed exam development issues, we heard of concerns about the consistency of some Middle East exams.

“Through the webinar we will look at how improving collaboration between with subject matter experts – whether in-house or otherwise – can result in better tests.”

“In the Middle East, drawing together SMEs from across different regions can often cost thousands of dollars and is also time consuming. This software reduces those costs by enabling emulated online collaborations, but more importantly it allows us to overcome content inconsistencies so that quality exams can be developed in a standardised way, as long as this is combined with expertise and training,” he added. - TradeArabia News Service