AIM The aim of the present study was to examine basic psychometric properties as well as to confirm the five-factor structure of the Polish version ofthe Metacognitions Questionnaire-30 (MCQ-30), a short instrument to measure various aspects of maladaptive metacognitions. METHOD The sample consisted of 315 individuals (239 females and 76 males). Fourty-five of the participants were examined t...

BACKGROUND There has been comparatively little consideration of the impact that the changes to undergraduate curricula might have on postgraduate academic performance. This study compares the performance of graduates by UK medical school and gender in the Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) section of the first part of the Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FRCA) examination. METHOD...

test method facet is one of the factors which can have an influence on the test takers’ performance. the purpose of the current study was to investigate the effects of two different response types, multiple-choice cloze and multiple-choice test, on the pre-intermediate and intermediate test takers’ reading comprehension performance. to this end, 40 pre-intermediate and intermediate learners par...

Pepple DJ, Young LE, Carroll RG. A comparison of student performance in multiple-choice and long essay questions in the MBBS stage I physiology examination at the University of the West Indies (Mona Campus). Adv Physiol Educ 34: 86–89, 2010; doi: 10.1152/advan.00087.2009.—This retrospective study compared the performance of preclinical medical students in the multiple-choice question (MCQ) and ...

Second-year undergraduated students from 2008, 2009, and 2010 cohorts were asked to respond a questionnaire to determine their learning style preferences, the VARK questionnaire (where V is visual, A is aural, R is reading-writing, and K is kinesthetic), which was translated into Spanish by the author. The translated questionnaire was tested for wording comprehension before its application in t...

OBJECTIVE There were two aims of the present study. The first aim was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Metacognition Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (MCQ-C) among Turkish children and adolescents. The second aim was to analyze relationships between metacognitive processes, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms among Turkish children and adolescents. METHOD Four h...

Abstrak: Analisis Deskriptif Kualitas Soal Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) Mini Kuis Tutorial di Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang. Penilaian hasil belajar siswa merupakan suatu proses dalam pendidikan. Dalam pendidikan kedokteran asesmen memiliki beberapa tujuan, yaitu mencapai tujuan pembelajaran, memahami mahasiswa, memberikan terhadap kompetensi dan sebagai pengembangan ...

BACKGROUND Teaching programmes in medical education are now routinely employing active learning strategies to enhance the learning process and engage students in higher levels of learning. Team-based learning (TBL) is one active learning strategy that builds on individuals' strengths by allowing them to collaborate and work as a team to achieve a common learning objective. AIMS The present st...