ASSESSMENT OF MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS TEST ITEM QUALITY AFTER POST EXAM ITEM ANALYSIS

Abstract

Item analysis is the collection, summarization and utilizing information from students' responses to assess the quality of test items. The item statistics can distinguish between good items and those that need improvement or deletion from question bank. Our aim is to assess the quality of the summative Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) for all courses of the M.B.B.Ch program before and after staff awareness campaign, College of Medicine, Taibah University, KSA, 2020. This study is a Quasi-experimental pre-post test study design and was conducted in 4 stages, collection of the MCQ exams, conduction of Awareness campaign on how to benet the post-exam item analysis, Re-collection and analysis of the post-exam item analysis and Finally, the results of the post exam item analysis of both academic years were compared to detect any changes in the items quality. showed that there were marked improvement of good quality items after awareness campaign especially in the Pre-clinicalResults courses than clinical ones IN Item analysis when regularly incorporated can help to develop a very useful, valid and a reliable questionConclusion bank by changing awed items either by rectied or deleted from the question bank