Assessment of higher order cognitive skills in undergraduate education: Modified essay or multiple choice questions? Research paper

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Palmer, Edward J ^a   Devitt, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXAMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MODIFIED ESSAY QUESTION; RECALL; TAXONOMY; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

COGNITION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 37349069214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-7-49     Document Type: Article

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