Investigation of answer changes on the USMLE® Step 2 Clinical Knowledge examination.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Examinees often believe that changing answers will lower their scores; however, empirical studies suggest that allowing examinees to change responses may improve their performance in classroom assessments. To date, no studies have been able to examine answer changes during large scale professional credentialing or licensing examinations. METHODS:In this study, we expand the research on answer changes by analyzing responses from 27,830 examinees who completed the Step 2 Clinical Knowledge (CK) examination between August of 2015 and August of 2016. RESULTS:The results showed that although 68% of examinees changed at least one item, the overall average number of changes was small. Among the examinees who changed answers, approximately 45% increased their scores and approximately 28

SUBMITTER: Ouyang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6806526 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature