on Tuesday December 28th, 2019 at the meeting hall in main campus, Amoud University. The meeting was chaired by Suleiman Hassan Ali, - Chief Registrar, AU, in acting capacity in the absence of Dr. Mohamed Muse Jibril – Vice President, AA, AU who was away on other official engagements.

In attendance were Dr. Willis Oso Yuko – Snr. Advisor, Academic Affairs & Sec. to Mngt., Abubokor Said Ali, - Dean, Faculty of Business & Public Administration, AU, Edwin O. Okech, - Dean, Faculty of Computing & Informatics, AU – Secretary, Mohamed Abdi Osman - Dean, Faculty of Agriculture & Environment, AU, Abdirizak Mahamud Osman, - Dean, Faculty of Economics & Political Science, AU, Tawakal A. Ali - Assistant Editor, University Academic Journal Committee, AU, Eng. Abdikarim Idiris Nour, - Dean, Faculty of Engineering, AU, Bishar Elmi Yey, - Director, QAMS, AU, Abdirahman Ahmed Muhumed, - Dean, Faculty of Education, AU, Harun Ismail Warsame, - Dean, Freshman Department, AU, Dr. Mohamed Ali Nageeye, - Dean, Faculty of Sharia & Law, AU.

Agenda items for the day included analysis of monitoring and evaluation status reports from the weekly supervision teams for teaching and learning in various teaching/learning centres of Amoud university academic units and continuation of Training on Examination Setting and administration from the previous week.

The facilitator for the training covered an in-depth analysis of the following items as characteristics of a good examinations:-

• Test analysis
  
  • Validity
  • Reliability
  • Difficulty
  • Discrimination
• Test validity
  
  • Face validity
  • Content validity
  • Theory validity
  • Criteria / Absolute validity

• Test validity Common methods used
  
  • Test and retest
  • Split into half.
  • Parallel/ alternate/ equivalent forms
• Test Difficulty
• Discriminative nature of Tests
• Review of the set examination paper