We report the results of a pilot study on generating Multiple-Choice Test Items from medical text and discuss the main tasks involved in this process and how our system was evaluated by domain experts.

In this article, the authors show that test makers and test takers have a strong and systematic tendency for hiding correct answers-or, respectively, for seeking them-in middle positions. In single, isolated questions, both prefer middle positions to extreme ones in a ratio of up to 3 or 4 to 1. Because test makers routinely, deliberately, and excessively balance the answer key of operational t...

Kibble JD, Johnson T. Are faculty predictions or item taxonomies useful for estimating the outcome of multiple-choice examinations? Adv Physiol Educ 35: 396–401, 2011; doi:10.1152/advan.00062.2011.—The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether multiple-choice item difficulty could be predicted either by a subjective judgment by the question author or by applying a learning taxonomy to the i...

It is very likely that, at least once in their lifetime, everyone has answered a multiple-choice test. Multiple-choice tests are considered an effective technique for knowledge assessment, requiring a short response time and with the possibility of covering a broad set of topics. Nevertheless, when it comes to their creation, it can be a time-consuming and labour-intensive task. Here, the gener...

background: the method of evaluation in students’ learning affects their studying mode. the aim of this study was to compare nursing students’ scores in essay and multiple-choice questions in mother and child health examination in shahrekord university of medical sciences. methods: in this study, the  final scores of 121 of nursing students in a multiple-choice questionnaire consisting of 40 qu...

College students in a lower-division psychology course made metacognitive judgments by predicting and postdicting performance for true-false, multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank question sets on each of three exams. This study investigated which format would result the most accurate judgments. Extending Koriat’s (1997) cue-utilization framework to these judgments, gave different cues base Furthe...

The study explored the quality of multiple-choice question types test items in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) using item analysis. was an exploratory type where secondary data collected analysed. made up ten (10) Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) on ICT instrument. Thirty learners’ instruments were sampled. analysis procedure included reliability coefficient, coefficient variation...