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Educación Médica Superior
Print version ISSN 0864-2141On-line version ISSN 1561-2902
Abstract
ROMEU ESCOBAR, Margarita Rosa and DIAZ QUINONES, José Aurelio. Methodological assessment of the preparation of lists of topics in final exams of medicine and dentistry studies. Educ Med Super [online]. 2015, vol.29, n.3. ISSN 0864-2141.
This article was aimed at finding out how the indications and recommendations for the preparation of the list of topics for the final exams. Ninety nine of them from 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 academic years in "Dr Raul Dorticos Torrado" medical sciences school, Cienfuegos province were revised in order to assess the methodological aspects. The most used format was the short-answer test. In the studied group, 87.9 % had well-constructed stems, 60.6 % had good items and 61.6 % showed adequate evaluation scales. The most frequent errors were imprecise tasks in modified essay questions, single complement-type questions and evaluation scales where the pass mark is lower than 60%. Sixty five percent of questions were "reproduction-type" questions. Generally speaking, the list of items was adequately constructed, but there were observed some mistakes in the construction of questions and in the evaluation scales. The predominance of reproduction-type questions restricts the conceptual validity of tests.
Keywords : learning evaluation; objective exams.