Varying levels of difficulty index of skills-test items randomly selected by examinees on the Korean emergency medical technician licensing examination
| Autor: | Gu-Hyun Kang, Seonggi Min, Soon-Sim Kim, Bong-Yeun Koh, Gyoung-Yong Kim, Jin-Sook Hyun, Hayran Kwon, Sung-Gi Hong, Jun-Dong Moon, Milye Baek |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Educational measurement
020205 medical informatics lcsh:Medicine 02 engineering and technology Education Basic skills 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Technical Report Republic of Korea 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Medicine Humans Set (psychology) Simulation Reliability (statistics) Licensure Class (computer programming) Medical education lcsh:LC8-6691 lcsh:Special aspects of education business.industry Technician Korea Licensure lcsh:R Reproducibility of Results 030208 emergency & critical care medicine Reliability Test (assessment) Emergency Medical Technicians Cross-Sectional Studies Emergency medical technicians Item General Health Professions Educational Status Clinical Competence Educational Measurement business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, Vol 13 (2016) |
| ISSN: | 1975-5937 |
| Popis: | Purpose: The goal of this study was to characterize the difficulty index of the items in the skills test components of the class I and II Korean emergency medical technician licensing examination (KEMTLE), which requires examinees to select items randomly. Methods: The results of 1,309 class I KEMTLE examinations and 1,801 class II KEMTLE examinations in 2013 were subjected to analysis. Items from the basic and advanced skills test sections of the KEMTLE were compared to determine whether some were significantly more difficult than others. Results: In the class I KEMTLE, all 4 of the items on the basic skills test showed significant variation in difficulty index (P< 0.01), as well as 4 of the 5 items on the advanced skills test (P< 0.05). In the class II KEMTLE, 4 of the 5 items on the basic skills test showed significantly different difficulty index (P< 0.01), as well as all 3 of the advanced skills test items (P< 0.01). Conclusion: In the skills test components of the class I and II KEMTLE, the procedure in which examinees randomly select questions should be revised to require examinees to respond to a set of fixed items in order to improve the reliability of the national licensing examination. |
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