Where national board examinations pass and fail in evaluating knowledge of surgical clerks

Autor: Joyce Wirch, Robert Zeppa, Bernard S. Linn, Robert Schimmel, Theodore C. Pratt
Rok vydání: 1979
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Zdroj: Journal of Surgical Research. 26:97-100
ISSN: 0022-4804
Popis: The aim of this study is to test a multiple choice test generated by the computer (CGE) with the National Board Examination (NBE) used for evaluation of surgical clerks. The CGE was developed and tested over a 2-year period prior to the study. It resembles the NBE in length and format but is geared to content covered in the 12-week surgical rotation. The research question concerned whether the CGE could replace the NBE. One hundred seventy-two students were randomly assigned to four groups at the end of each quarter of the year. They were tested twice, 1 day apart as follows: 1. NBE-NBE; 2. CGE-CGE; 3. NBE-CGE; 4. CGE-NBE. Correlations between NBE and CGE were in the moderate range. Analysis of variance between scores on CGE and NBE showed differences that were almost of borderline significance ( P
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