Medical Education > Tests: Scoring and Item Analysis

Tests: Scoring and Item Analysis

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Written examinations and evaluation questionnaires are scanned, key-validated, scored, and analyzed. Medical school faculty employ a variety of testing formats (e.g. multiple choice, extended matching, uncued tests) depending on the content being assessed. Center staff provides essential support for these needs, having scanned, key-validated, scored and analyzed 495 written examinations and evaluation questionnaires during this past academic year.

Selected Publications

Veloski JJ, Louis DZ. Evaluating the evaluations. Educacao Medica 1984; 2(1): 33-40.

Veloski JJ, Rabinowitz HK, Robeson MR, Young PR. Patients don't present with five choices; an alternative to multiple-choice tests in assessing physicians' competence. Academic Medicine 1999; 74(5): 539-546.

Fenderson BA, Damjanov I, Robeson MR, Veloski JJ, Rubin E. The virtues of extended matching and uncued tests as alternatives to multiple choice questions. Human Pathology 1997; 28(5): 526-532.

Veloski JJ, Rabinowitz HK, Robeson MR. A solution to the cueing effects of multiple choice questions: the UnQ format. Medical Education 1993; 27(4): 371-375.