The Effect of Scrambling Test Item on Students’ Performance and Difficulty Level of MCQs Test in a College of Medicine, KKU
| العنوان: | The Effect of Scrambling Test Item on Students’ Performance and Difficulty Level of MCQs Test in a College of Medicine, KKU |
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| المؤلفون: | Ayyub Patel, Muhammad Abid Khan, Ismail Satti, Abdulaziz Alamri, Bahaeldin Hassan |
| المصدر: | Creative Education. 10:1813-1818 |
| بيانات النشر: | Scientific Research Publishing, Inc., 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 050101 languages & linguistics, Randomization, Cheating, 05 social sciences, Significant difference, 050301 education, General Medicine, Scrambling, Test (assessment), Test item, Statistics, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Analysis of variance, Psychology, 0503 education, Multiple choice |
| الوصف: | Background: Multiple Choice Tests (MCQs) are commonly used assessment tool in medical schools, which is delivered to our student in four versions (A, B, C and D) to avoid cheating. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of scrambling test items on students’ performance and the difficulty level of each version, so as to decide on continuing randomization of test items or keeping it without randomization. Methods: A prospective, cross-sectional study was conducted, the participants were the 5th year undergraduate medical students during their major course of obstetrics and gynecology. Three tests where items were randomized are delivered to the students. After correction, the marks obtained by the candidates and difficulty index of each version were entered into the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20 and comparison amongst these four versions was carried out through analysis of variance (ANOVA). A p-value of |
| تدمد: | 2151-4771 2151-4755 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::7adc04ab008c60ec21fb536524d9ffc3 https://doi.org/10.4236/ce.2019.108130 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........7adc04ab008c60ec21fb536524d9ffc3 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 21514771 21514755 |
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