BACKGROUND Exams are essential components of medical students' knowledge and skill assessment during their clinical years of study. The paper provides a retrospective analysis of validity evidence for the internal medicine component of the written and clinical exams administered in 2012 and 2013 at King Abdulaziz University's Faculty of Medicine. METHODS Students' scores for the clinical and ...

background: academic tests are valuable tools for evaluating students’ knowledge and capabilities. this study aimed to assess the content validity offinal examinations at mashhad dental school. the practical purpose of this study was to enhance the quality of written examinations in this school. methods: the present descriptive, cross-sectional study aimed to determine the content validity of f...

Multiple choice questions are a convenient and popular means of testing beginning students in programming courses. However, they are qualitatively different from exam questions. This paper reports on a study into which types of multiple choice programming questions discriminate well on a final exam, and how well they predict exam scores.

To reduce academic dishonesty and strengthen learning outcomes, I adopted in-depth oral examinations as my benchmark summative assessments in a Human Anatomy & Physiology course taught an online asynchronous setting. This decision led students me down the transformative path of mastery learning. was threshold experience for who were how to think express themselves physiologists. also explor...

Traditionally, literacy, and speech production have been investigated separately. Studies of development demonstrate that children are able to meet the challenge of language learning across modalities, and that adults may experience difficulties in one or both modalities. Yet, it is rare to find a conceptual connection between these two processes. I argue that speaking and reading actually shar...