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An Experimental Comparison of Multiple-Choice and Short-Answer Questions on a High-Stakes Test for Medical Students

Posted: | Janet Mee, Ravi Pandian, Justin Wolczynski, Amy Morales, Miguel Paniagua, Polina Harik, Peter Baldwin, Brian E. Clauser

Advances in Health Sciences Education

 

Recent advancements enable replacing MCQs with SAQs in high-stakes assessments, but prior research often used small samples under low stakes and lacked time data. This study assesses difficulty, discrimination, and time in a large-scale high-stakes context

Category:Assessment-Oriented Research, Links to Outcomes, General Measurement

Adding Objectivity to Standard Setting: Evaluating Consequence Using the Conscious and Subconscious Weight Methods

Posted: | B.C. Leventhal, I. Grabovsky

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 39: 30-36

 

This article proposes the conscious weight method and subconscious weight method to bring more objectivity to the standard setting process. To do this, these methods quantify the relative harm of the negative consequences of false positive and false negative misclassification.

Category:Assessment-Oriented Research, General Measurement