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Using Multiple Choice Questions to Evaluate the Difficulty and Long-Term Retention of Factual Versus Conceptual Knowledge

2022-08-19

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Multiple choice questions (MCQs) are the mainstay of examinations for medical education, physician licensing, and board certification. MCQs are traditionally a preferred way to test rote recall of memorized facts. Their utility in assessing higher cognitive functions has been more problematic to determine. We classified a series of 43 MCQs into two groups to test recall/verbatim thinking and conceptual/inferential...

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Literature Corpus work: a525b87b-cc36-5cd2-8528-fca74a42b922
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1965172/v1

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