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Differential evaluation of students' performance in histology
Author(s) -
NOTZER N.,
ARONSON M.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1979.tb00925.x
Subject(s) - test (biology) , medical education , mathematics education , differential (mechanical device) , computer science , psychology , medicine , biology , engineering , ecology , aerospace engineering
Summary Construction of multiple choice questions in histology is often hampered by the difficulty in finding alternatives to the correct answer which will be neither trivial nor ludicrous. An additional problem appears when the student performance on the morphological and the functional aspects needs to be assessed. A method of test construction is presented which includes ‘multi‐dimensional’ questions. The questions reflect the objectives of the course and performance is evaluated differentially according to the importance attributed to their content.‘Essential knowledge’ is more highly rewarded than knowledge deemed secondary by the course's planners.