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ROMEU ESCOBAR, Margarita Rosa  y  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.

Palabras clave : learning evaluation; objective exams.

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