Evaluation of multiple-choice questions by item analysis, from an online internal assessment of 6th semester medical students in a rural medical college, West Bengal

Evaluation of multiple-choice questions by item analysis, from an online internal assessment of 6th semester medical students in a rural medical college, West Bengal

Background: Properly constructed single best-answer multiple choice questions (MCQs) or items assess higher-order cognitive processing of Bloom's taxonomy and accurately discriminate between high and low achievers. However, guidelines for writing good test items are rarely followed, leading to...

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Main Authors: Sharmistha Bhattacherjee, Abhijit Mukherjee, Kallol Bhandari, Arup Jyoti Rout
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2022-01-01
Series:Indian Journal of Community Medicine
Subjects:
bloom's taxonomy
difficulty index
discrimination index
distractor efficiency
item analysis
multiple-choice questions
Online Access:http://www.ijcm.org.in/article.asp?issn=0970-0218;year=2022;volume=47;issue=1;spage=92;epage=95;aulast=Bhattacherjee

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