A total of 42 students who had practical immunology course were included in the study. A series of 10 stations were established for OSCE. At each station the students were given a patient description were asked to answer questions for results and interpretation of tests within two minutes. Then, the MCQ examination consisting of 10 questions and oral examination with 10 same questions were cond...

In this paper, we present a study of MCQ aiming to define criteria in order to automatically select distractors. We are aiming to show that distractor editing follows rules like syntactic and semantic homogeneity according to associated answer, and the possibility to automatically identify this homogeneity. Manual analysis shows that homogeneity rule is respected to edit distractors and automat...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess whether the continuing medical education (CME) multiple-choice questions (MCQs) in three major radiology journals adhere to standard question-writing principles. MATERIALS AND METHODS All CME MCQs (total of 181) in the January 2013 editions of the AJR, RadioGraphics, and Radiology composed the test sample. Each question was evaluated by three ...

Multiple Choice Questions or MCQs are very important for e-learning. Many MCQ Tools allow us to generate MCQs very easily. However, in most of the cases they are not portable. That means MCQs generated for one system cannot be used for other unless a common format is used. So, collaboration and/or up gradation becomes a time consuming tedious task. In this paper, we will examine how a tool coul...

Multiple Choice Questions or MCQs are very important for e-learning. Generally, MCQs are used as a tool for the assessment of students’ performance at the end of their learning sessions. Can MCQs become an important tool in the process of knowledge acquisition while attending a course? This paper intends to find out how MCQs could be used as a tool for the better understanding, coverage as well...

Computer Assisted Assessment of free-text answers has established a great deal of work during the last years due to the need of evaluating the deep understanding of the lessons’ concepts that, according to most educators and researchers, cannot be done by simple MCQ testing. In this paper we have reviewed the techniques underpinned this system, the description of currently available systems for...