Open-book examinations (OBEs) will likely become increasingly important assessment
tools. We investigated how access to open-book resources affected questions testing factual …

There has been little information about how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted medical
students' knowledge acquisition. The aim of the study was to identify the impact of the …

Aim to analyze the psychometric characteristics of items in the nursing inter-institutional
progress testing for the years 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023. Background Progress testing is a …

Nanoscale Science and Technology (NST) is a rapidly evolving field with profound
implications for various industries and our everyday lives. However, misconceptions among …

Introduction Clinical vignette-type multiple choice questions (CV-MCQs) are widely used in
assessment and identifying the response process validity (RPV) of questions with low and …

Construct We compared the quality of clinician-authored and student-authored multiple
choice questions (MCQs) using a formative, mock examination of clinical knowledge for …

Test development is a complicated process that demands examining various factors, one of
them being writing items of varying difficulty. It is important to use items of a different range of …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Brazilian medical schools equitably divide their medical
education assessments into five content areas: internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: The longitudinal evaluation of students seems to be a better
way to assess their knowledge compared with that of the traditional methods of evaluation …

ABSTRACT Multiple-Choice Questions provide an objective cost/time effective assessment.
Deviation from appropriate question writing structural guidelines will most probably result in …