Background: It is important to learn how to study for different examinations. The objective of the current study is to explore whether the assessment method selection would significantly affect the studying and learning approaches of students. Methods: This descriptive-analytical research consisted of 191 first-year undergraduate nursing students from three nursing schools and was conducted dur...

background: it is important to learn how to study for different examinations. the objective of the current study is to explore whether the assessment method selection would significantly affect the studying and learning approaches of students. methods: this descriptive-analytical research consisted of 191 first-year undergraduate nursing students from three nursing schools and was conducted dur...

The article presents the experiments carried out as part of the participation in the main task (English dataset) of QA4MRE@CLEF 2013. In the developed system, we first combine the question Q and each candidate answer option A to form (Q , A) pair. Each pair has been considered a Hypothesis (H). We have used Morphological Expansion to rebuild the H. Then, each H has been verified by assigning a ...

THE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION EXAMINATION has been shown to be a reliable method of measuring a candidate's ability to recognize and recall the facts that are relevant to a doctor's training (Wood 1961, Hubbard and Clemans 1961). Because the answers to multiple choice'questions are predetermined, they can be scored by a computer; this can be programmed to give correlations and tables as required...

Multiple-choice question (MCQ) examinations are increasingly used as the assessment method of theoretical knowledge in large class-size modules in many life science degrees. MCQ-tests can be used to objectively measure factual knowledge, ability and high-level learning outcomes, but may also introduce gender bias in performance dependent on topic, instruction, scoring and difficulty. The 'Singl...

  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 ...

OBJECTIVE To assess reliability and validity of the objectively-structured clinical examination (OSCE) applied in postgraduate certification processes by the Mexican Board of Rheumatology. METHOD Thirty-two (2013) and 38 (2014) Rheumatology trainees (RTs) underwent an OSCE consisting of 12 and 15 stations respectively, scored according to a validated check-list, as well as 300-multiple-choice...

Objective: The present study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the short form of the Metacognition Questionnaire (MCQ-30) in a population of Turkish university students. The metacognitions questionnaire (MCQ) measures individual differences in a selection of metacognitive beliefs, judgments, and monitoring tendencies considered important in the metacognitive model of psychologica...

Multiple choice questions (MCQs) are a common data gathering tool. We extend the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) framework to a collection of MCQ surveys. Topic discovery is turned into group discovery based on survey response patterns. Question choices are equivalent to vocabulary words and are conditioned on the question and the latent group that is used to cluster the survey responders. Th...