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Review of multiple-choice-questions and group performance - A comparison of face-to-face and virtual groups with and without facilitation
Background: Multiple choice questions (MCQs) are often used in exams of medical education and need careful quality management for example by the application of review committees. This study investigates whether groups communicating virtually by email are similar to face-to-face groups concerning the...
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German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3140376/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21818213 http://dx.doi.org/10.3205/zma000705 |
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author | Kazubke, Edda Schüttpelz-Brauns, Katrin |
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description | Background: Multiple choice questions (MCQs) are often used in exams of medical education and need careful quality management for example by the application of review committees. This study investigates whether groups communicating virtually by email are similar to face-to-face groups concerning their review process performance and whether a facilitator has positive effects. Methods: 16 small groups of students were examined, which had to evaluate and correct MCQs under four different conditions. In the second part of the investigation the changed questions were given to a new random sample for the judgement of the item quality. Results: There was no significant influence of the variables “form of review committee” and “facilitation”. However, face-to-face and virtual groups clearly differed in the required treatment times. The test condition “face to face without facilitation” was generally valued most positively concerning taking over responsibility, approach to work, sense of well-being, motivation and concentration on the task. Discussion: Face-to-face and virtual groups are equally effective in the review of MCQs but differ concerning their efficiency. The application of electronic review seems to be possible but is hardly recommendable because of the long process time and technical problems. |
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spelling | pubmed-31403762011-08-04 Review of multiple-choice-questions and group performance - A comparison of face-to-face and virtual groups with and without facilitation Kazubke, Edda Schüttpelz-Brauns, Katrin GMS Z Med Ausbild Article Background: Multiple choice questions (MCQs) are often used in exams of medical education and need careful quality management for example by the application of review committees. This study investigates whether groups communicating virtually by email are similar to face-to-face groups concerning their review process performance and whether a facilitator has positive effects. Methods: 16 small groups of students were examined, which had to evaluate and correct MCQs under four different conditions. In the second part of the investigation the changed questions were given to a new random sample for the judgement of the item quality. Results: There was no significant influence of the variables “form of review committee” and “facilitation”. However, face-to-face and virtual groups clearly differed in the required treatment times. The test condition “face to face without facilitation” was generally valued most positively concerning taking over responsibility, approach to work, sense of well-being, motivation and concentration on the task. Discussion: Face-to-face and virtual groups are equally effective in the review of MCQs but differ concerning their efficiency. The application of electronic review seems to be possible but is hardly recommendable because of the long process time and technical problems. German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2010-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3140376/ /pubmed/21818213 http://dx.doi.org/10.3205/zma000705 Text en Copyright © 2010 Kazubke et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/deed.en). You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Article Kazubke, Edda Schüttpelz-Brauns, Katrin Review of multiple-choice-questions and group performance - A comparison of face-to-face and virtual groups with and without facilitation |
title | Review of multiple-choice-questions and group performance - A comparison of face-to-face and virtual groups with and without facilitation |
title_full | Review of multiple-choice-questions and group performance - A comparison of face-to-face and virtual groups with and without facilitation |
title_fullStr | Review of multiple-choice-questions and group performance - A comparison of face-to-face and virtual groups with and without facilitation |
title_full_unstemmed | Review of multiple-choice-questions and group performance - A comparison of face-to-face and virtual groups with and without facilitation |
title_short | Review of multiple-choice-questions and group performance - A comparison of face-to-face and virtual groups with and without facilitation |
title_sort | review of multiple-choice-questions and group performance - a comparison of face-to-face and virtual groups with and without facilitation |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3140376/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21818213 http://dx.doi.org/10.3205/zma000705 |
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