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The impact of item-writing flaws and item complexity on examination item difficulty and discrimination value [PDF]
BMC Medical Education, 2016 Failure to adhere to standard item-writing guidelines may render examination questions easier or more difficult than intended. Item complexity describes the cognitive skill level required to obtain a correct answer. Higher cognitive examination items promote critical thinking and are recommended to prepare students for clinical training.
Rush, Bonnie R. +2 more
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Psychometric Properties of 3-, 4-, and 5-Option Item Tests: Do Test Takers’ Personality Traits Make a Difference? [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2019 Prior research has yielded mixed results regarding what contributes psychometrically sound multiple-choice (MC) items. The purpose of the present study was, therefore, twofold: (a) to compare 3-, 4-, and 5-option multiple-choice (MC) tests in terms of ...
Fatemeh Khaleghi, Rajab Esfandiari
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Item analysis of multiple-choice questions in anatomy for first year MBBS
National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 2022 Background: Multiple choice questions (MCQs) are preferred tools of assessment because of objectivity, ease of scoring and how each MCQ functions as an item can be understood by Item analysis.
Chandrika Teli, Nilesh Kate
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National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 2022 Background: Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) or items are frequently used in medical education to assess students knowledge at the end of an academic session. However, item analysis has to be done to confirm their excellence.
Afshan Kausar +2 more
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Mining discriminative items in multiple data streams [PDF]
World Wide Web, 2010 How can we maintain a dynamic profile capturing a user's reading interest against the common interest? What are the queries that have been asked 1,000 times more frequently to a search engine from users in Asia than in North America? What are the keywords (or tags) that are 1,000 times more frequent in the blog stream on computer games than in the blog
Zhenhua Lin +3 more
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Are Exam Questions Known in Advance? Using Local Dependence to Detect Cheating. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Cheating is a common phenomenon in high stakes admission, licensing and university exams and threatens their validity. To detect if some exam questions had been affected by cheating, we simulated how data would look like if some test takers possessed ...
Stefan Zimmermann +2 more
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MedEdPORTAL, 2012 This resource is an electronic tutorial explaining the basics of item analysis. It focuses on item difficulty, item discrimination, and distractor analysis.
Christopher Reznich
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Psychometric properties of a novel knowledge assessment tool of mechanical ventilation for emergency medicine residents in the northeastern United States [PDF]
Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 2016 Purpose: Prior descriptions of the psychometric properties of validated knowledge assessment tools designed to determine Emergency medicine (EM) residents understanding of physiologic and clinical concepts related to mechanical ventilation are lacking ...
Jeremy B. Richards +3 more
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Parameters and Models of Item Response Theory (IRT): A Review of Literature
Acta Educationis Generalis, 2023 Introduction: Item response theory (IRT) has received much attention in validation of assessment instrument because it allows the estimation of students’ ability from any set of the items.
Gyamfi Abraham, Acquaye Rosemary
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021 Background It is well established that racism is a fundamental contributor to poor health and inequities. There is consistent evidence of high exposure to discrimination among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous Australian) peoples, but ...
Katherine A. Thurber +11 more
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