ICC C5 flashcards
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- Self-contained item
- A question whose stem supplies every fact needed to choose an answer, with no exhibit, figure, or external reference required.
- Needs-review flag
- A status marking an item whose underlying fact is unconfirmed, excluding it from scored pools until a second reviewer verifies or corrects it.
- Null field value
- An explicit record that a fact, date, or threshold is unknown, used instead of an approximation so the gap stays visible to reviewers.
- Dominant control objective
- The primary rule a cross-domain question is testing; subordinate domain rules are then applied as constraints on the answer.
- Word-equivalent counting
- A length measure where one English word counts as one and every four Chinese, Japanese, or Korean characters count as one.
- Provisional domain weighting
- A share of exam content treated as unconfirmed because no published task analysis maps items to that domain.
- Circular definition
- A definition that repeats the term or a variant of it instead of describing the term's function, measurement, or trigger condition.
- Operational phrasing
- Wording that states what is measured, compared, or triggered, rather than offering evaluation such as important or best practice.
- Term length cap
- The six-word maximum for a flashcard term, which forces one concept per card and prevents compound or conjunctive entries.
- Definition length window
- The fifteen-to-forty-word range for a definition; shorter omits the discriminating condition, longer admits a second concept.
- False synonym risk
- The error of translating a standard technical term into the delivery language, creating a near-match that misleads recall.
- Functional role substitution
- Replacing a repeated term with a description of its role in the process, which breaks circularity in a definition.
- Surface-form inference
- Answering from the shape of the term rather than its meaning, a defect that makes a card test vocabulary instead of knowledge.
- Negatively worded stem
- A question asking which option is false or excluded, marked by a capitalized negation placed just before the target.
- Plausible misconception distractor
- A wrong option built from a believable but incorrect rule, so choosing it reveals a specific gap rather than random guessing.
- Answer leakage
- The defect where the stem echoes the key's wording, letting candidates identify the correct option from vocabulary overlap alone.
- Absolute qualifier
- A word such as always, never, or only that usually marks a defective key unless the underlying rule is genuinely unconditional.
- Parallel option form
- Matching grammar and length across all options so that shape gives no clue and only content distinguishes the key.
- Distractor rationale
- An explanation of why each wrong option fails, required alongside the justification of the key for an item to be complete.
- Unit-error option set
- Numerical choices that differ by one order of magnitude or a common conversion mistake, so the item tests the rule not arithmetic.
- Confidence state
- A per-claim label of verified, provisional, or unknown, where unknown maps to a null value plus a review flag.
- Originality constraint
- The rule that no item may paraphrase or reference an existing commercial question bank, with provenance recorded for each item.
- Affiliation disclaimer
- The prohibition on implying examiner or vendor endorsement in stems, rationales, or metadata, since no official affiliation exists.
- Per-item versioning
- Tracking revisions at the individual item level so one corrected fact does not force re-review of unrelated cards.
- Second-reviewer sign-off
- The approval step that promotes a provisional fact to verified status before the item may enter a scored pool.
- Recency check
- Re-verification of thresholds, dates, and version numbers; a stale figure is treated as unknown until confirmed again.
- Deterministic remainder allocation
- Assigning leftover cards by sorting domains on weight descending, breaking ties by domain id ascending, then distributing one per domain.
- Concept-level duplicate
- Two cards testing the same rule in different words, counted once when measuring coverage rather than as separate items.
- Coverage gap
- A shortfall detected by comparing cards per domain against the target share, independent of the total card count.
- Mandatory domain tag
- A required field on every card linking it to one domain, enabling coverage to be recomputed without rereading definitions.
- Thin-source signal
- A domain producing fewer than six distinct cheat-sheet bullets, indicating source material must be expanded before authoring.
- Thirty-two card invariant
- The fixed total that must hold after any addition, retirement, or retagging, verified by recomputing the per-domain distribution.