Assessment of factual recall and higher-order cognitive domains in an open-book medical school examination

DJ Davies, PF McLean, PR Kemp, AD Liddle… - Advances in Health …, 2022 - Springer
Open-book examinations (OBEs) will likely become increasingly important assessment
tools. We investigated how access to open-book resources affected questions testing factual …

Reduction in final year medical students' knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from an interinstitutional progress test

PT Hamamoto Filho, D Cecilio-Fernandes… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
There has been little information about how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted medical
students' knowledge acquisition. The aim of the study was to identify the impact of the …

[HTML][HTML] Development of qualified items for nursing education assessment: The progress testing experience

BM Dias, LMG da Silva, PT Hamamoto Filho… - Nurse Education in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Aim to analyze the psychometric characteristics of items in the nursing inter-institutional
progress testing for the years 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023. Background Progress testing is a …

Concept mapping and conceptual change texts: a constructivist approach to address the misconceptions in nanoscale science and technology

M Naeem Sarwar, A Shahzad, Z Ullah, S Raza… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Nanoscale Science and Technology (NST) is a rapidly evolving field with profound
implications for various industries and our everyday lives. However, misconceptions among …

Identifying the response process validity of clinical vignette-type multiple choice questions: An eye-tracking study

FC Specian Junior, TM Santos, J Sandars… - Medical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Clinical vignette-type multiple choice questions (CV-MCQs) are widely used in
assessment and identifying the response process validity (RPV) of questions with low and …

Writing Multiple Choice Questions—Has the Student Become the Master?

H Pham, S Court-Kowalski, H Chan… - Teaching and Learning in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Construct We compared the quality of clinician-authored and student-authored multiple
choice questions (MCQs) using a formative, mock examination of clinical knowledge for …

The difference between estimated and perceived item difficulty: An empirical study

A Sayın, O Bulut - International Journal of Assessment Tools in …, 2024 - dergipark.org.tr
Test development is a complicated process that demands examining various factors, one of
them being writing items of varying difficulty. It is important to use items of a different range of …

[HTML][HTML] Reliability across content areas in progress tests assessing medical knowledge: a Brazilian cross-sectional study with implications for medical education …

PT Hamamoto Filho, M Hashimoto… - Sao Paulo Medical …, 2024 - SciELO Brasil
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Brazilian medical schools equitably divide their medical
education assessments into five content areas: internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics …

Longitudinal evaluation of the Ophthalmology residents in Brazil: an observational prospective study

JN Iyeyasu, D Cecilio-Fernandes… - Sao Paulo Medical …, 2022 - SciELO Brasil
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: The longitudinal evaluation of students seems to be a better
way to assess their knowledge compared with that of the traditional methods of evaluation …

Knowledge of dental faculty in gulf cooperation council states of multiple-choice questions' item writing flaws

M Kowash, H Alhobeira, I Hussein… - Medical Education …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Multiple-Choice Questions provide an objective cost/time effective assessment.
Deviation from appropriate question writing structural guidelines will most probably result in …