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Feedback, fairness, and validity: effects of disclosing and reusing multiple-choice questions in medical schools
| العنوان: | Feedback, fairness, and validity: effects of disclosing and reusing multiple-choice questions in medical schools |
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| المؤلفون: | Stefan Appelhaus, Susanne Werner, Pascal Grosse, Juliane E. Kämmer |
| المصدر: | Medical Education Online, Vol 28, Iss 1 (2023) |
| بيانات النشر: | Taylor & Francis Group, 2023. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Special aspects of education LCC:Medicine (General) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Assessment, formative assessment, multiple-choice questions, item reuse, disclosure, feedback, Special aspects of education, LC8-6691, Medicine (General), R5-920 |
| الوصف: | ABSTRACTBackground Disclosure of items used in multiple-choice-question (MCQ) exams may decrease student anxiety and improve transparency, feedback, and test-enhanced learning but potentially compromises the reliability and fairness of exams if items are eventually reused. Evidence regarding whether disclosure and reuse of test items change item psychometrics is scarce and inconclusive.Methods We retrospectively analysed difficulty and discrimination coefficients of 10,148 MCQ items used between fall 2017 and fall 2019 in a large European medical school in which items were disclosed from fall 2017 onwards. We categorised items as ‘new’; ‘reused, not disclosed’; or ‘reused, disclosed’. For reused items, we calculated the difference from their first ever use, that is, when they were new. Differences between categories and terms were analysed with one-way analyses of variance and independent-samples t tests.Results The proportion of reused, disclosed items grew from 0% to 48.4%; mean difficulty coefficients increased from 0.70 to 0.76; that is, items became easier, P |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 10872981 1087-2981 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/1087-2981 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10872981.2022.2143298 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/3b4ee2ae272b48e4b591176f90ffb2c5 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.3b4ee2ae272b48e4b591176f90ffb2c5 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 10872981 |
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| DOI: | 10.1080/10872981.2022.2143298 |