ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines and comment on the sequence of events from examination design through the various processes leading finally to the promulgation of results. Although examples will be drawn in the main from one examination board, the various stages and sequence of the production process are applicable to them all, although they may differ in detail. In the production of a test of, say, fifty objective test questions or ten structured questions each member of a team of writers might be given a quota of questions to a prescribed specification, the total probably exceeding three or four times the final number required. The complexity of the design and production of a public examination for schools would surprise most members of the general public and indeed some members of the teaching profession. The application of these principles to examining on a large scale assumes general agreement and general practice of a particular style of teaching and learning.
