Abstract

Objective: to explore factors that was being a challenge and an encouragement for lecturers in writing MCQ questions.Methods: This was a content analysis qualitative research. Determination of the research subject was done with a maximum variation purposive sampling that was choosing faculty of medicine at states university with an A accreditation, and faculty of medicine at private university with a B accreditation. Then research subjects was selected from each of these institutions with variations in teaching time, clinical and non-clinical lecturers, active and not active in writing MCQ questions. The amount of research subject was 16. The results of the interview were transcripted and conducted with an open coding using Open Code 4.3 program by a researcher and a research assistant. Coding results were analyzed using a thematic analysis approach.Results: Results from the qualitative analysis showed factors that was being an encourage for lecturers in writing MCQ questions were the fulfillment of basic needs such as an autonomy, competence, relatedness, and religiosity. While the factors that was being a challenge for lecturers were not fulfilling these basic needs.Conclusions: Autonomy, competence, relatedness, and religiosity were basic needs that was influence lecturers in writing MCQ questions. If the institutions aimed to conducted appropriate development programs for lecturers, they must pay attention to the basic human needs of life such as autonomy, relatedness, competence and religiosity.International Journal of Human and Health Sciences Vol. 04 No. 02 April’20 Page : 120-127

Highlights

  • Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) is one of the multiple choice assessments that is often used in the assessment of medical students

  • Lecturers’ commitment in learning includes low commitment to write questions and poor time management. This commitment was what drives lecturers to carry out their work properly or not. This low commitment was influenced by the difficulty of lecturers in writing MCQ questions

  • The difficulty of lecturers to write MCQ questions were due to the rules in writing MCQ questions and the difficulty of writing five homogeneous answer choices

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Introduction

Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) is one of the multiple choice assessments that is often used in the assessment of medical students. It can be used to test students in large numbers, it can be used to test wide knowledge contents. This assessment is accurate and consistent compared to other types of assessments.[1]. Most writers find it difficult to make good MCQ questions, so the results of MCQ only tests a simple knowledge. It is only a repetition of facts and it is not a problem analysis.[2]. There are several things that are suspected to be the cause of bad written MCQ questions, 1.

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