Use of item analysis to improve the quality of single best answer multiple choice question in summative assessment of undergraduate medical students in Malaysia

Background: Single best answer (SBA) as multiple-choice items are often advantageous to use for its reliability and validity. However, SBA requires good number of plausible distractors to achieve reliability. Apart from psychometric evaluation of assessment it is important to perform item analysis t...

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Main Authors: Hassan, Shahid, Hod, Rafidah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KKMED Publication 2017
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/63651/1/Use%20of%20item%20analysis%20to%20improve%20the%20quality%20of%20single%20best%20answer%20multiple%20choice%20question%20in%20summative%20assessment%20of%20undergraduate%20medical%20students%20in%20Malaysia.pdf