A review of students’ common misconceptions in science and their diagnostic assessment tools

S Soeharto, B CsapÃ, E Sarimanah… - Jurnal Pendidikan …, 2019 - journal.unnes.ac.id
A misconception is well-known as a barrier to students in learning science. Some topics in
science learning are always giving misconception to novice students, and there have been …

Barriers and facilitators to writing quality items for medical school assessments–a scoping review

S Karthikeyan, E O'Connor, W Hu - BMC Medical Education, 2019 - Springer
Background Producing a sufficient quantity of quality items for use in medical school
examinations is a continuing challenge in medical education. We conducted this scoping …

Difficulty index, discrimination index and distractor efficiency in multiple choice questions

W Mahjabeen, S Alam, U Hassan, T Zafar… - Annals of PIMS …, 2017 - apims.net
Objective: Our first objective was to evaluate the quality of MCQs by analyzing difficulty
index, discrimination index and distractor efficiency. Our second objective was to find out the …

Effectiveness of longitudinal faculty development programs on MCQs items writing skills: A follow-up study

HM Abdulghani, M Irshad, S Haque, T Ahmad, K Sattar… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
This study examines the long-term impact of the faculty development programs on the
multiple choice question (MCQ) items' quality leading to study its effect on the students' …

Formative student-authored question bank: perceptions, question quality and association with summative performance

JL Walsh, BHL Harris, P Denny… - Postgraduate medical …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Purpose of the study There are few studies on the value of authoring questions as a study
method, the quality of the questions produced by students and student perceptions of …

Learning to Reuse Distractors to Support Multiple-Choice Question Generation in Education

SK Bitew, A Hadifar, L Sterckx, J Deleu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are widely used in digital learning systems, as they allow
for automating the assessment process. However, owing to the increased digital literacy of …

Diagnosing students' misconception in Hydrostatic Pressure through a 4-tier test

N Bessas, E Tzanaki, D Vavougios, VP Plagianakos - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
The aim of this study is to record and highlight the misconceptions of Greek junior high
school students regarding the concept of hydrostatic pressure. Hydrostatic pressure is …

Guidelines on writing multiple choice questions: A well-received and effective faculty development intervention

P Przymuszała, K Piotrowska, D Lipski… - SAGE …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Multiple choice questions (MCQs) are commonly used for assessing students, but medical
teachers may lack training in writing them. MCQs often have imperfections called item …

Quality of multiple-choice questions in medical internship qualification examination determined by item response theory at Debre Tabor University, Ethiopia

LM Belay, TY Sendekie, FA Eyowas - BMC Medical Education, 2022 - Springer
Background Assessment of cognitive competence is a major element of the internship
qualification exam in undergraduate medical education in Ethiopia. Assessing the quality of …

Teachers' test construction competencies in examination-oriented educational system: Exploring teachers' multiple-choice test construction competence

P Kissi, D Baidoo-Anu, E Anane… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This study explored the relationship between multiple choice test construction competence
and the quality of multiple-choice tests among senior high school teachers in Ghana. In all …