• Faculty of Health Sciences & School of Medicine Dean's Office Support Staff & Deanship Recruitment (Including Dean and Associate Deans) Impact Analysis Template (Dean's Office use only)

Writing MCQs

• NBME: Constructing Written Test Questions (PDF)
• MCQ Guidelines, MCC (PDF)
• Writing MCQs (Power Point)

Writing Multiple Choice Questions:  An Introductory Tutorial.  www.nbme.org/IWTutorial  This self-paced, interactive tutorial provides a foundation for writing quality multiple-choice questions.  The tutorial introduces some of the main principles of item writing. It is organized into sections so that you can complete part of it and easily return later. The entire tutorial takes about 45 minutes to complete.  Featured topics include:

• the anatomy of an item
• basic rules for writing good stems and options
• characteristics of a quality "best-answer" item
• writing items to assess clinical reasoning
• common item flaws
• strategies for evaluating test items

• 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)
• Michelle Gibson's Approach to Blueprinting (Word)

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 Assessment

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

Key Features and the MCC Exam Part I

Medical Council of Canada Guidelines for the Development of Key Feature Problems and Test Cases (pdf)
A practical guide to assessing clinical decision-making skills using the key features approach (Farmer and Page 2005) (pdf)

Assessment guidelines and processes

• Student Assessment Practices and Procedures

• School of Medicine Academic Council
  
  • Terms
  • Agendas
  • Minutes

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