Concept inventories comprised of multiple choice questions are widely used in physics and astronomy to measure students pre-instruction knowledge and post instruction gains (Hestenes, Wells, & Swackhamer, 1992; Maloney, OKuma, Hieggelke, & Van Heuvelen, 2001, and others). Concept inventories are valuable because they address big ideas in the discipline with which students often struggle. The mu...

to improve the quality of the mcqs, a supervising feedback strategy between the examination constructors and the educational development office of the school of traditional medicine was performed to evaluate the content validity and designation of the course items of the phytotherapy exam for phd students of traditional pharmacy. the efforts resulted in a well-constructed examination.

The discussion of whether multiple-choice questions can replace the traditional exam with essays and constructed in introductory courses has just started Norway. There is not an easy answer. findings depend on pattern questions. Therefore, one must be careful drawing conclusions. In this research, will explore a selected business course where 30 percent test comprised items. obviously are some ...

‘Standard setting’ is a process through which the items prepared for the student assessment is standardized before and/or after the student assessment process. The main objective of standard setting is to determine the cut-off score, or pass mark, of an item or a test. The tests represent Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs), Short Answer Questions (SAQs), Objective Structured Practical or Clinical...

This short contribution reports the development of a test for assessing middle school students' physics proficiency via multiple-choice single-select items in German language. The assesses content and procedural knowledge across various areas that are typical education at middle-school level is based on adapted developed within Third International Mathematics Science Study (TIMSS). We report st...