• J Paediatr Child Health · Jun 2011

    How to write good multiple-choice questions.

    • Dianne E Campbell.
    • Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney Department of Immunology and Allergy, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. campbell@med.usyd.edu.au
    • J Paediatr Child Health. 2011 Jun 1;47(6):322-5.

    AbstractMedical practitioners are frequently called upon to write multiple-choice questions for high stakes examinations, such as final year medical student assessments and specialist college accreditation examinations. The fairness and validity of these examinations depends principally on the generation of high-quality questions, which adequately sample the curriculum. The most common format for multiple-choice examinations are single best answer and extended matching type questions. This paper provides a simple guideline that will assist with the production of high-quality multiple-choice papers in these formats.© 2011 The Author. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health © 2011 Paediatrics and Child Health Division (Royal Australasian College of Physicians).

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