Effectiveness of longitudinal faculty development programs on MCQs items writing skills: A follow-up study.

ABSTRACT: This study examines the long-term impact of the faculty development programs on the multiple choice question (MCQ) items' quality leading to study its effect on the students' overall competency level during their yearly academic assessment. A series of longitudinal highly constructed faculty development workshops were conducted to improve the quality of the MCQs items writing skills. A total of 2207 MCQs were constructed by 58 participants for the assessment of 882 students' cognitive competency level during the academic years 2012-2015. The MCQs were analyzed for the difficulty index (P-value), discriminating index (DI), presence/absence of item writing flaws (IWFs), and non-functioning distractors (NFDs), Bloom's taxonomy cognitive levels, test reliability, and the rate of students' scor

SUBMITTER: Abdulghani HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5634605 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature