Comparison of the traditional and situational choice questions in the physiological examination
- VernacularTitle:生理学试卷传统和情景式选择题的比较
- Author:
Shuo LI
;
Ling GUO
;
Wei PANG
;
Xiaoxia LI
;
Man CHEN
;
Demao SONG
;
Shigong ZHU
- Keywords:
physiology;
test paper analysis;
discrimination index;
difficulty coefficient;
situational choice questions
- From:
Basic & Clinical Medicine
2017;37(1):138-141
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective Evaluating the effect of situational questions for qualifying the students'abilities in physiolo-gy examination .Methods Comparing the difficulty coefficients and discrimination indexes between situational and traditional choice questions .Results Compared with the traditional choice questions , the difficulty coefficient of situational questions increased , while the discrimination indexes were more reasonable .The discrimination indexes of situational understanding questions were higher than those of the traditional memory and understanding questions . There were no difference between discrimination indexes of the situational application questions and those of tradi -tional application questions .Conclusions Situational questions not only improved the quality of examinations , but also facilitate evaluating students'learning ability .
