Post-examination interpretation of objective test data: Monitoring and improving the quality of high-stakes examinations: AMEE Guide No. 66

Medical Teacher

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Tavakol, Mohsen ^a   Dennick, Reg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EDUCATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FACULTY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84857509473     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2012.651178     Document Type: Article

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