Dwight Harley, in conjunction with the Office of Undergraduate Medical Education, offers a series of five noon-hour seminars focusing on the best practices of assessment. The seminars cover topics ranging from test-item development to item analysis and standard setting:

• Basic principles of assessment
• Constructing effective multiple-choice items
• Developing short answer and completion-type items
• Item analysis for the stat-a-phobic
• Basics of standard setting

For more information or to register for a session, contact dwight.harley@ualberta.ca