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Use of Multiple-Choice Items in Summative Examinations: Questionnaire Survey Among German Undergraduate Dental Training Programs

Use of Multiple-Choice Items in Summative Examinations: Questionnaire Survey Among German Undergraduate Dental Training Programs

Multiple-True-False (also known under further names such as Kprim, Type K’, or Type X) and conventional multiple-select items (ie, the number of answer options to be selected is unknown to examinees) were reported to contain between 4 and 6 statements or answer options and were both used by 44% (12/27) of the dental schools. The use of further item types is shown in Table 1. Different multiple-choice item types for the assessment of theoretical knowledge at the respondent dental schools (N=27).

Lena Rössler, Manfred Herrmann, Annette Wiegand, Philipp Kanzow

JMIR Med Educ 2024;10:e58126

Use of Multiple-Select Multiple-Choice Items in a Dental Undergraduate Curriculum: Retrospective Study Involving the Application of Different Scoring Methods

Use of Multiple-Select Multiple-Choice Items in a Dental Undergraduate Curriculum: Retrospective Study Involving the Application of Different Scoring Methods

This item type has also been named true-false format, cluster-true-false, cluster (multiple true-false) variety, cluster-type true-false, Kprim, Kprime, K’, and Type X in the literature [12-16]. Based on the above-mentioned definitions of Pick-N and MTF items, the example shown in Figure 1 should be employed as a Pick-N item instead of an MTF item.

Philipp Kanzow, Dennis Schmidt, Manfred Herrmann, Torsten Wassmann, Annette Wiegand, Tobias Raupach

JMIR Med Educ 2023;9:e43792