Assessment Resources

Writing MCQ questions

• NBME: Constructing Written Test Questions (PDF)
• MCQ Guidelines, MCC (PDF)
• Writing MCQs (Power Point)
• MCQ checklist (DOC)
• Writing Multiple-Choice Questions for Continuing Medical Education Activities and Self Assessment Modules, Collins
• MCQs 1 - Construction
• MCQs 2 - Technical Flaws to Avoid
• MCQs 3 - Aligning with Course Objectives
• Glossary of Assessment Terms

Blueprinting

• Twelve tips for blueprinting, Coderre et al. (PDF)

Formative assessment

• The Teaching Doctor, Spring 2008 - Improve learning through formative assessment (PDF)

Interpretation and Follow-up of Assessment Results

• A podcast of a workshop delivered to Course Directors by Dr. Don Klinger, Queen’s Faculty of Education

• Interpretation and Follow Up of Assessment Results (Power Point)

The workshop’s objectives were to:

• understand the concepts of reliability and validity in interpreting examination results
• know the difference between criterion-referenced and norm-referenced grading
• be familiar with the new examination process
• understand that test and item analysis is an expected part of the examination process

• Narrative Feedback (ppt) Narrative Feedback (narrated Powerpoint)
• Narrative Feedback Professionalism (pdf)

• SAC Guidelines on Assessment and Mark Distribution for Pre-Clerkship Courses
• Process for conduct of final examinations in Undergraduate Medicine, Preclerkship