Relationship between item difficulty and discrimination indices in true/false-type multiple choice questions of a para-clinical multidisciplinary paper

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 67-71

  Sim, Si Mui ^a,b   Rasiah, Raja Isaiah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b Faculty of Science   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Assessment methods; Educational measurement; Item analysis; Year II medical test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LINEAR SYSTEM; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST; PARAMEDICAL DISCIPLINES; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 33646684024     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.v35n2p67     Document Type: Article

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