The pearls and pitfalls of setting high-quality multiple choice questions for clinical medicine

South African Family Practice

 
 
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Title The pearls and pitfalls of setting high-quality multiple choice questions for clinical medicine
 
Creator Naidoo, Mergan
 
Subject — multiple choice questions; MCQs; single best answer questions; blueprinting; post hoc analysis
Description Multiple choice question (MCQ) examinations have become extremely popular for testing applied knowledge in the basic and clinical sciences. When setting MCQ examinations, assessors need to understand the measures that improve validity and reliability so that the examination accurately reflects the candidate’s ability. This continuing medical education unit will cover the essentials of blueprinting an exam, constructing high-quality MCQs and post hoc vetting of the exam. It is hoped that academics involved in assessments use the content provided to improve their skills in setting high-quality MCQs.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2023-05-29
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/safp.v65i1.5726
 
Source South African Family Practice; Vol 65, No 1 (2023): Part 3; 4 pages 2078-6204 2078-6190
 
Language eng
 
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