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Towards a rational approach to student evaluation by examinations
Author(s) -
FREDMAN 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.tb01200.x
Subject(s) - grading (engineering) , certification , medical education , reliability (semiconductor) , scheme (mathematics) , multiple choice , medical physics , function (biology) , medicine , psychology , mathematics education , computer science , mathematics , engineering , management , biology , significant difference , mathematical analysis , power (physics) , civil engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology , economics
Summary The major functions of examinations are noted and a scheme of multiple choice testing is outlined which distinguishes between the certification function and the grading function of examinations. This scheme has been in operation since January 1976 in the Department of Anatomy, University of Cape Town, and preliminary results are presented which show:(i) greatly enhanced reliability (ii) unimpaired validitywhen the multiple choice procedures described were used.