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Designing for Confidence: Supporting Exam Teams Under Pressure
High-stakes medicine and healthcare exams place enormous responsibility not only on candidates, but on the staff who design, deliver and safeguard them. …
Reliability Is the Real Test: Designing Digital Healthcare Exams That Withstand the Unexpected
In high-stakes healthcare assessment, reliability is not a feature. It’s the foundation. Digital transformation in exams is often discussed in terms of …
Variation in High-Stakes Healthcare Exam Delivery: When Does Difference Become Risk?
The verifiable quality of high-stakes healthcare exam delivery is as important as the content they assess.
Maxinity is now live on G-Cloud 14
Maxinity is delighted to announce that we have been awarded a G-Cloud 14 framework contract.
Should OSCEs be modernised?
How should OSCEs be adapting and evolving with the introduction of new technologies?
How to get the most from your question bank software
Are you using your question bank software effectively? Find out if you could create better exams more efficiently
Build better exams, faster with digital exam blueprinting
Could exam blueprinting speed up your exam development process, whilst actually delivering better exams?
Popular Question Types and When They’re Effective.
The choice of appropriate question types is crucial when designing assessments to evaluate knowledge and skills in healthcare subjects.
Maxinity sponsorship deal for team member Josh
We’re delighted to share that Maxinity is backing one of our team members, Josh, in his fun but unusual pastime of Combat …
Is cheating a major problem for digital exams?
Digital exams offer a convenient way to assess students’ knowledge and skills. They enable easy collaboration among exam administrators, flexible delivery of …
Exam Reliability – Cronbach’s Alpha
What is Cronbach’s Alpha? Cronbach’s Alpha provides a measure of the internal consistency of a survey, test or exam. Within an exam …
Introduction to Exam Reliability
For an exam to be reliable it needs to measure candidates’ performance accurately and consistently according to the objectives of the exam. Exam reliability statistics such as Cronbach’s Alpha, which Maxexam uses, help examiners to understand how reliably the exam is measuring different candidates’ ability.