Online Workshop: Part 1 Constructing and Vetting of Quality Items in MCQ (OBA )
Date: 10-May-2022 (Tuesday)
Time: 10.00am - 12.00pm
Platform: Zoom
Facilitators:-
• Prof Dr Shahid Hassan
• Dr Ismail Abdul Sattar Burud
Categories:
• Assessment (A)
Roles:-
• Role 1: Information provider and guide
• Role 4: Assessor
• Role 6: Manager & change agent
Workshop Description:-
The 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:-
- To develop skills of constructing an Extended Matching Question (EMQ) and One Best Answer (OBA) Items.
- To create awareness of the role of multiple-choice questions (OBA) with regards to distractor efficiency in students assessment.
- 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.
Programme Learning Outcomes (PLO):-
- 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).
- Able to demonstrate the skills for constructing One Best Answer (OBA) Items and Extended Matching Question (EMQ) (C3).
- Able to examine the role of distractor efficiency in students’ assessment using multiple-choice questions (OBA and EMQ) (C4).