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Use of multiple-choice tests in medical education

Publication |
1997

Abstract

The actual state of the is connected some problems. The rules for the creation tests from the viewpoint of logics of questions and formal structure are mostly not respected.

The mentioned rules are prepared in the field of theoretical pedagogics, but did not entered until now enough in the medical education. The result is the lower relevance of the tests in terms of their validity and reliability.

In the paper is presented the set of principles for the correct structure of questions and in the same time the classification of the multiple-choice tests with the rules of their creation.