In cooperation with the Quality Assurance and Accreditation Center, the Faculty of Economics held a workshop today, Sunday, 3/5/2026, titled "Preparing and Formulating Automated Questions in Line with Quality and Academic Accreditation Standards (NARS)," attended by the faculty administration and a number of faculty members, as well as Dr. Afraa Ali, Head of the Human Resources and Administrative Development Department, and Dr. Abeer Atira, Head of the Planning and Documentation Department at the Quality Assurance and Accreditation Center.
The workshop addressed the fundamentals of preparing and formulating exam questions accurately and objectively, in compliance with academic quality standards and effectively reflecting the educational objectives of the courses.
The Director of the Quality Assurance and Accreditation Center, Dr. Aqeel Hajouz, delivered a lecture titled "Evaluation of Automated Questions Based on Quality Standards," in which he emphasized the importance of diversifying assessment methods to ensure efficient measurement of learning outcomes, stressing the need to prepare questions that take into account modern standards in evaluation.
For her part, Dr. Anna Ahmad, Head of the Training and Media Department at the Center, presented a lecture on "Types of Automated Questions and Their Formulation Standards," explaining their role in building diverse and reusable question banks for automated examination systems.
The Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Dr. Abdulhadi Al-Rifai, also pointed out, through his lecture on "Psychometric and Statistical Analysis (Difficulty and Discrimination)," the importance of designing questions that measure various cognitive and skill levels, with a focus on analyzing exam results using statistical methods to improve the quality of assessment.
The workshop aimed to enable faculty members to acquire the necessary skills to prepare high-quality tests, contributing to the development of the educational process and raising the level of academic performance.