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Computerized long‐menu questions as an alternative to open‐ended questions in computerized assessment
Author(s) -
Schuwirth L W T,
Vleuten C P M,
Stoffers H E J H,
Peperkamp A G W
Publication year - 1996
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.1365-2923.1996.tb00717.x
Subject(s) - closed ended question , multiple choice , anxiety , psychology , open label , social psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , randomized controlled trial , significant difference , surgery , statistics , psychiatry , mathematics
SUMMARY To optimally avoid cueing effects and computer scoring problems in computerized examinations a computerized long‐menu question (CLM) was developed. This question type was compared to open‐ended questions in one treatment group and to multiple‐choice questions in another treatment group. Also, scores were compared to self‐perceived computer anxiety of the participants. CLMs yield comparable scores to open‐ended questions, but the scores differ significantly from those on multiple‐choice tests. Correlations in the first comparison (CLMs with multiple‐choice) were higher than those in the second camparison (CLMs with open‐ended questions). The amount of positive and negative cueing was considerably higher in the first than in the second comparison. Response times of CLMs were higher than those of multiple‐choice questions and open‐ended questions, differing significantly from both. Computer anxiety did not influence the mean scores in either comparison. Therefore, in computerized testing CLMs seem to offer an acceptable replacement of open‐ended questions.