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posted on 2023-06-08, 20:23 authored by Erich Brenner, Andy R M Chirculescu, Concepción Reblet, Claire SmithClaire Smith
From an educational perspective, a very important problem is that of assessment, for establishing competency and as selection criterion for different professional purposes. Among the issues to be addressed are the methods of assessment and/or the type of tests, the range of scores, or the definition of honour degrees. The methods of assessment comprise such different forms such as the spotter examination, short or long essay questions, short answer questions, true-false questions, single best answer questions, multiple choice questions, extended match questions, or several forms of oral approaches such as viva voce examinations.Knowledge about this is important when assessing different educational objectives; assessing educational objectives from the cognitive domain will need different assessment instruments than assessing educational objectives from the psychomotor domain or even the affective domain.There is no golden rule, which type of assessment instrument or format will be the best in measuring certain educational objectives; but one has to respect that there is no assessment instrument, which is capable to assess educational objectives from all domains of educational objectives.Whereas the first two or three levels of progress can be assessed by well-structured written examinations such as multiple choice questions, or multiple answer questions, other and higher level progresses need other instruments, such as a thesis, or direct observation.This is no issue at all in assessment tools, where the students are required to select the appropriate answer from a given set of choices, as in true false questions, MCQ, EMQ, etc. The standard setting is done in these cases by the selection of the true answer.

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  • Published

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Journal

European Journal of Anatomy

ISSN

1136-4890

Publisher

Spanish Society of Anatomy

Issue

1

Volume

19

Page range

105-124

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  • Division of Medical Education Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2015-03-20

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2015-03-20

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2015-03-20

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