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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

Using multisite instrumental variables to estimate treatment effects and treatment effect heterogeneity

Posted: | C.R. Runyon

UT Electronic Theses and Dissertations

 

Using Monte Carlo simulation, the current study examines the performance of three IV estimators and two conventional estimators in recovering the CATE and CATE heterogeneity under simulation conditions that resemble multisite trials of well-known educational programs.

Category:Assessment-Oriented Research, General Measurement