Introduction: Computer-aided testing is an alternative to traditional paper-and-pen tests. Despite the fact that computer-based examination methods are well-established in academic centres, continuous monitoring of their quality is still needed. In the academic year 2013/14, doctoral degree students of the Medical Faculty at Medical University of Warsaw (MUW) took part in the "Reliability in re...

In multiple-choice tests, four-option items are the standard in nursing education. There are few evidence-based reasons, however, for MCQs to have four or more options as studies have shown that three-option items perform equally as well and the additional options most often do not improve test reliability and validity. The aim of this study was to examine and compare the psychometric propertie...

We report the results of a pilot study on generating Multiple-Choice Test Items from medical text and discuss the main tasks involved in this process and how our system was evaluated by domain experts.

In this article, the authors show that test makers and test takers have a strong and systematic tendency for hiding correct answers-or, respectively, for seeking them-in middle positions. In single, isolated questions, both prefer middle positions to extreme ones in a ratio of up to 3 or 4 to 1. Because test makers routinely, deliberately, and excessively balance the answer key of operational t...

Peter Facione's generally well thoughtout set of suggestions for messing up a critical thinking test l overlooked one significant option for the construction of defective multiple-choice (hereinafter MC) tests: require the impossible. 2 Perhaps Facione was being intentionally devious, leaving this option to be discovered by the intrepid reader, but it appears that one of the MC items he uses to...

Multiple choice tests are widely applied to assess students’ knowledge in science education. This study aimed at assessing the validity and reliability of Science Multiple-choice Test Malaysia. The items for this test were formulated by researcher together with a panel teachers head department close reference Secondary School Standard Curriculum (KSSM) syllabus. consists 50 multiple-choice four...