OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of an audience response system (ARS) on knowledge retention of dental students and to gauge student perceptions of using the ARS. DESIGN Randomised control study. SETTING School of Dentistry, Cardiff University. PARTICIPANTS Seventy four second-year dental students were stratified by gender and randomised anonymously to one of two groups. METHODS One gr...

BACKGROUND The potent vasoconstrictor endothelin-1 has been implicated in the pathogenesis of the microcirculatory dysfunction seen in sepsis. The mixed endothelin receptor antagonist tezosentan and the selective endothelin A-receptor antagonist TBC3711 were used to investigate the importance of the different endothelin receptors in modulating splanchnic regional blood flow and microvascular bl...

INTRODUCTION Research has asserted MCQ items using three response options (one correct answer with two distractors) is comparable to, and possibly preferable over, traditional MCQ item formats consisting of four response options (e.g., one correct answer with three distractors), or five response options (e.g., one correct answer with four distractors). Some medical educators have also adopted t...

Introduction: In order to benefit from the advantages of essay exams, one must be sure to reliably judge students based on essay test scores. The aim of this study was to examine the correlation of scores in the essay and MCQ parts of renal pathophysiology final exam and students’ views about the effect of the type of test on their study. Methods: This descriptive correlational survey wa...

Abstract Introduction Sexual stigma has been found to be related a variety of factors including age, ethnicity, religion, gender, and education. However, we still know relatively little about the association cognitive constructs with homonegativity. In current study, aimed explore associations between metacognitions sexual among young adults. Methods Five hundred thirty-eight individuals partic...

Abstrak: Analisis Deskriptif Kualitas Soal Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) Mini Kuis Tutorial di Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang. Penilaian hasil belajar siswa merupakan suatu proses dalam pendidikan. Dalam pendidikan kedokteran asesmen memiliki beberapa tujuan, yaitu mencapai tujuan pembelajaran, memahami mahasiswa, memberikan terhadap kompetensi dan sebagai pengembangan ...

This paper presents the current state of a work in progress, whose objective is to better understand the effects of factors that significantly influence the performance of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). A difficult task, which consists in answering (French) biology Multiple Choice Questions, is used to test the semantic properties of the truncated singular space and to study the relative influ...

The classic controversy in psychology and philosophy concerning the epistemological primacy of cognition or affect is an underlying current in The Amygdala. Though not directly confronted by any of the authors, the debate seems to be answered by a confluence of positions: the amygdala, among other areas in the central nervous system, is capable of integrating highly processed sensory informatio...

abstract:             partial knowledge is one of the main factors to take into account when dealing with the improvement of administration of multiple choice questions (mcq). various strategies have been proposed for this factor in traditional testing environment. so this study proposed a confidence based assessment (cba) as a sufficient solution & want to compare the effect of cba scoring sys...