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Some people have heard of item banking. Very few actually know what it's about.

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Unknown
And there's actually very little that has been written and published about item banking.

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Unknown
So item banking is a really interesting area. It's almost a crossover between the assessment, the academic side of assessment and the operational side.

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Unknown
It's a system where we store material, which is going to go into an assessment, at the smallest possible level, so individual tasks.

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Unknown
It's important that we study it from thinking about how do we produce this, but we also have to make sure it's a system that's going to support good assessment which is valid and reliable.

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Unknown
So really in the workshops we try to explain what it is and how you can apply this to your

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context.

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Unknown
It saves all of us working in assessment who are busy people, saves us time, and it saves the organisation money in

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the long run.

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Unknown
They're very practical. It's not just listening to me talking and occasionally asking questions. We have breakout sessions where people discuss certain issues, certain topics, and of course, that's the really interesting part, because everyone will bring different information to those breakout sessions.

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Unknown
We get people from all different countries, all different backgrounds. They all have something interesting to say. It's just fascinating listening to different people's experience, their contributions, and quite often that challenges me and I go away and think about something and hopefully come back and

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Unknown
we carry on the discussion in later series. But it's just really

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interesting.