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 qu...

Delay discounting, which refers to the phenomenon that rewards decrease in subjective value as the delay associated with their receipt increases, is a paradigm that has been used extensively in substance abuse research to understand impulsive decision making. One common measure to assess delay discounting is the Monetary Choice Questionnaire (MCQ) developed by Kirby, Petry, and Bickel (1999). W...

OBJECTIVE To compare medical students' perceptions regarding Objectively Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) with Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) and Oral exam in their semiology course. METHODS We used a questionnaire with 10 questions regarding the quality of exam (Likert scale) and 3 questions regarding the difficulty, being educative and with descriptive scales. The study carried out i...

OBJECTIVES To determine what standard paediatric medical students would set for examining their peers and how that would compare with the university standard. DESIGN Single blinded computer marked examination with questionnaire. SETTING University medical school. SUBJECTS Medical students during their final paediatric attachment. INTERVENTIONS Medical students asked to derive 10, five b...

OBJECTIVE The present study tested the extent to which age and obesity predicted impulsive choices for food and monetary outcomes and tested how a brief mindful-eating training would alter delay discounting for food and money choices compared with control groups. METHOD First, 172 adolescents (Mage = 13.13 years) and 176 (Mage = 23.33 years) adults completed the Food Choice Questionnaire (FCQ...

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...

The present study established a brief measure of delay discounting for food, the Food Choice Questionnaire (FCQ), and compared it to another more established measure of food discounting that uses the adjusting amount (AA) procedure. One hundred forty-four undergraduate participants completed either two measures of hypothetical food discounting (a computerized food AA procedure or the FCQ) or tw...

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...

Methods A short critical care course for nurses (Nursing Intensive Care Skills Training; NICST) was co-designed & delivered by specialist overseas nurse trainers in partnership with Sri Lankan nurse tutors. The impact of the course was assessed using: a pre & post course Multiple Choice Questionnaire (MCQ); a post course Objective Clinical Skills Assessment (OSCA) station & post course feedback...