Clinical short-answer questions for postgraduate dentistry

Progress testing with short answer questions.

The concept of progress testing was developed in the 1970s. Significant features of progress tests are that the content is not linked to any specific course or unit, and that it reflects the final objectives of the curriculum as a whole. The questions are taken from a broad domain and cover a range of disciplines. Furthermore, the test is taken repeatedly over a period of time, to monitor stude...

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Validity of very short answer versus single best answer questions for undergraduate assessment

BACKGROUND Single Best Answer (SBA) questions are widely used in undergraduate and postgraduate medical examinations. Selection of the correct answer in SBA questions may be subject to cueing and therefore might not test the student's knowledge. In contrast to this artificial construct, doctors are ultimately required to perform in a real-life setting that does not offer a list of choices. This...

Short Answer Questions or Modified Essay Questions— More than a Technical Issue

Purpose, The present article was built on the assumption that the form of an examination may influence learning, and may also reflect different kinds of knowledge. The aim of the study was to evaluate whether the results of an examination differ when short answer questions (SAQ) or modified essay questions (MEQ) are used. Method, Forty-nine students in the internal medicine course in Gothenburg...

Learning to answer questions

We present an open-domain QuestionAnswering system that learns to answer questions based on successful past interactions. We follow a pattern-based approach to Answer Extraction, where (lexico-syntactic) patterns that relate a question to its answer are automatically learned and used to answer future questions. Results show that our approach contributes to the system’s best performance when it ...