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Evidence of gender bias in True-False-Abstain medical examinations

BACKGROUND: There is evidence that males and females differ in their attainment on a variety of assessments in general and in medical education. It has been suggested that the True-False-Abstain (TFA) format with negative marking is biased against females. METHODS: Eight years worth of examination d...

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Autores principales: Kelly, Shona, Dennick, Reg
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2702355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19500414
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-9-32