Resumen

CARRAZANA LEE, Armando; SALAS PEREA, Ramón Syr  y  RUIZ SALVADOR, Ana Karelia. Level of difficulties and discriminatory power in the diagnostic test of Human Morphophysiology I subject. Educ Med Super [online]. 2011, vol.25, n.1, pp.103-114. ISSN 0864-2141.

The objective of this paper is to identify the level of difficulties and the discriminatory power of the diagnostic test of Human Morphophysiological I included in the New Medical Formation Program that is implemented in "Felix Edén Aguada" teaching polyclinics located in Cienfuegos province, Cuba. To this end, the difficulty and discrimination indexes were estimated together with the discriminatory coefficient of the 421 diagnostic tests of the above-mentioned subject. The professors as key informants and outstanding students were interviewed. All the questions made it possible to discriminate and to predict. Of these, two showed a mean difficulty index, other two were fairly easy and just one was very easy. The level of difficulties and the discriminatory power of each question of the exam were established, which allowed stating that the applied instrument ranged from mean difficulty to moderately easy, with suitable discriminatory power. The professors and the students agreed that these exams were necessary to overcome difficulties in the evaluation process, to improve the methodological work and to re-adjust self-preparation. The conclusions were also submitted.

Palabras clave : Difficulty index; discriminatory power; learning assessment; New Medical Formation Program.

        · resumen en Español     · texto en Español     · Español ( pdf )