BACKGROUND The assessment of the anesthesia course in our university comprises Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), in conjunction with portfolio and multiple-choice questions (MCQ). The objective of this study was to evaluate the outcome of different forms of anesthesia course assessment among 5(th) year medical students in our university, as well as study the influence of gende...

BACKGROUND Despite the paradigm shift from process to competency-based education, no study has explored how competency-based metrics might be used to assess short-term effectiveness of thoracoscopy-related postgraduate medical education. OBJECTIVES To assess the use of a single-group, pre-/post-test model comprised of multiple-choice questions (MCQ) and psychomotor skill measures to ascertain...

OBJECTIVE The Metacognitions Questionnaire 30 assesses metacognitive beliefs and processes which are central to the metacognitive model of emotional disorder. As recent studies have begun to explore the utility of this model for understanding emotional distress after cancer diagnosis, it is important also to assess the validity of the Metacognitions Questionnaire 30 for use in cancer population...

We focus on the problem of vector compression using multicodebook quantization (MCQ). MCQ is a generalization of k-means where the centroids arise from the combinatorial sums of entries in multiple codebooks, and has become a critical component of large-scale, state-of-the-art approximate nearest neighbour search systems. MCQ is often addressed in an iterative manner, where learning the codeboo...

This paper studies some problems regarding mobile content quality (MCQ). Since the reason for communication is to be useful, we think that the only way of creating precise target group hitting mobile content is by thoroughly understanding MCQ and how it can be created. We present the results of a Finnish mobile user survey in which the users clearly point out MCQ areas that have to be improved ...

 Abstract  Introduction: Assessment is an integral part of the total evaluation process. Methods of assessment of students’ ability are various. Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQ) have been widely used for summative assessment and they stimulate students to make a superficial and exam  oriented study. Patient Management Problem(PMP)exams expose the students to a situation  similar to real life ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the Problem-based learning (PBL) with the traditional lecture-based curricula. METHODS The single best answer Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) and the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) were used to compare performance of the lecture-based curriculum with the PBL medical student groups. The reliability for the MCQs and OSCE was calculated with Kuder-Richardso...

The Construed Antonym Realisation Exercise Generation (CAREGen) methodology for generating Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) test items is described and illustrated using two case studies from the UK Electricity Distribution Industry. The first step of the methodology is to create Controlled Specific Learning Objectives (CSLOs) that define the required assessment outcomes for the generated MCQs. T...

OBJECTIVE To test the Mayo Clinic Quadratic (MCQ) equation against isotopic glomerular filtration rate, compared with the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) and the Cockcroft-Gault formulas, in type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Based on values obtained with iothalamate, 118 type 2 diabetic patients were divided into three groups according to renal function: hyperfiltratio...