Scoring Single-Response Multiple-Choice Items: Scoping Review and Comparison of Different Scoring Methods.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Single-choice items (eg, best-answer items, alternate-choice items, single true-false items) are 1 type of multiple-choice items and have been used in examinations for over 100 years. At the end of every examination, the examinees' responses have to be analyzed and scored to derive information about examinees' true knowledge.

Objective

The aim of this paper is to compile scoring methods for individual single-choice items described in the literature. Furthermore, the metric expected chance score and the relation between examinees' true knowledge and expected scoring results (averaged percentage score) are analyzed. Besides, implications for potential pass marks to be used in examinations to test examinees for a predefined level of true knowledge are derived.

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SUBMITTER: Kanzow AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10238964 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature