Trusting Your Test Results: Building and Revising Multiple-Choice Examinations

Examinations Using Multiple Choice Questions

For many years examinations in the medical course have been of the essay type, but recently there has been a move in the direction of multiple choice questions. In consequence, it has been asked whether this represents progress or if it is merely change for the sake of change. Since the form of the examination requiring the candidate to answer by means of an essay or short notes is well known, ...

Analysis of Multiple Choice Questions Based On Classical Test Theory

Introduction: The aim of this study was to use Classical Test Theory (CTT) software for qualitative and quantitative analysis of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) for Master students of health discipline. Methods: This study was carried out on two groups each including 50 undergraduate students of public health, and two groups of 50 and 26 undergraduate students of occupational health. The final...

Investigating the Relatedness of Cloze-Elide Test, Multiple-Choice Cloze Test, and C-test as Measures of Reading Comprehension

Reading comprehension ability consists of multiple cognitive processes, and cloze tests have long been claimed to measure this ability as a whole. However, since the introduction of cloze test, different varieties of it have been proposed by the testers. Thus, the present study was an attempt to examine the relatedness of Cloze-Elide test, Multiple-choice (MC) cloze test, and C-test as three di...

Setting and maintaining standards in multiple choice examinations

Some time ago, I wrote a paper about the assessment of competence in which I argued that any assessment situation is inevitably a compromise between what is desirable and what is achievable (Van der Vleuten, 1996). There are no fixed and firm strategies that guarantee the perfect compromise. Things strongly depend on specific assessment contexts and local conditions. The challenge is to take a ...

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