Online Workshop: PART II Constructing and Vetting of Quality Items in MCQ (EMQ)
Date 06-May-2021 (Thursday)
Time: 10.00am - 12.00pm
Facilitators:  Professor Dr Shahid Hassan, Professor Dr Ian Wilson & Dr Ismail Abdul Sattar Burud
Training Platform: Zoom

Workshop Description:-
MCQ: OBA and EMQ are the common multiple-choice questions. MCQs are written to cover extensive topics in a given field. MCQs feasibly are used to cover multiple factorial concepts and procedural knowledge domains in the curriculum. The current workshop on OBA and EMQ is intended to equip faculty with a gross knowledge on the assessment and in-depth knowledge on extended matching questions and one best answer item. Hands-on training with online games will be the key area of this workshop designed with special emphasis on question writing and vetting to ensure quality in OBA and EMQ.

Workshop Objectives:-
i)  To acquire skills for constructing an Extended Matching Question (EMQ) and One Best Answer (OBA) Items.

ii)  To create awareness of the role of multiple-choice questions (OBA) with regards to distractor efficiency in students’  assessment.

iii)  To develop a few context-rich, inter-disciplinary and preferably authentic (real scenario) items as OBA/EMQ in the written examination of undergraduate medical education.

Learning Outcome:-
i) Able to describe the role of MCQ (OBAQ/SBAQ and EMQ) in assessing students’ problem-solving skills as a test of their high order thinking (C1, C2, C5).

b) Able to demonstrate the skills for constructing One Best Answer (OBA) Items and Extended Matching Question (EMQ) (C3).

c) Able to examine the role of distractor efficiency in students’ assessment using multiple-choice questions (OBA and EMQ) (C4).