In February 2020, the governing bodies of the United States Medical Licensing Examination
(USMLE) announced the decision to change Step 1 score reporting from a three-digit system …

Objective Various disciplines at all education levels worldwide are steeped in contradictions
regarding the value of answer changing on exams. Therefore, the purpose of this scoping …

High-stakes exams including admissions, licensing, and maintenance of certification
examinations are commonplace in health professions education. Although exam scores and …

Background and objectives The COVID-19 pandemic has forced universities to move the
completion of university studies online. Spain's National Conference of Medical School …

Eye‐tracking technology can create a record of the location and duration of visual fixations
as a test‐taker reads test questions. Although the cognitive process the test‐taker is using …

Recent advances in automated scoring technology have made it practical to replace multiple-
choice questions (MCQs) with short-answer questions (SAQs) in large-scale, high-stakes …

The widespread use of computers in test delivery has made it possible to collect extensive
data about how examinees use available time as they complete a test. This type of timing …

Integrating Timing Considerations to Improve Testing Practices synthesizes a wealth of
theory and research on time issues in assessment into actionable advice for test …

Antecedentes y objetivos La pandemia de la COVID-19 ha obligado a completar los
estudios universitarios online. La Conferencia Nacional de Decanos de Facultades de …

Introduction The specific aims of the study are to assess whether answer changing on a high-
stakes cytomorphology examination will lower the cytology examinees' scores and to …