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Tests: Computer-administered Uncued Tests

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We have continued to develop and refine procedures for uncued tests, which have been administered in Department of Surgery clerkships for the last seven years. The Department of Family Medicine adopted a similar format of open-ended computer-administered testing in 2001. Working in collaboration with faculty members from these Departments, Center staff members score the tests immediately after each testing session, feeding the results to a computerized program that delivers immediate results. In this manner faculty may obtain an overall test response pattern and discuss these results with examinees. This rapid turn-around time of computer-administered testing benefits teachers and students alike, for it provides immediate and systematic feedback in the aftermath of an exam.

Selected Publications

Wolfson PJ, Veloski JJ, Robeson MR, Maxwell K. Administration of open-ended test questions by computer in a clerkship final examination. Academic Medicine 2001; 76(8): 835-839.

Veloski JJ, Rabinowitz HK, Robeson MR, Young PR. Patients don't present with five choices; an alternative to multiple-choice tests in assessing physicians' competence. Academic Medicine 1999; 74(5): 539-546.

Fenderson BA, Damjanov I, Robeson MR, Veloski JJ, Rubin E. The virtues of extended matching and uncued tests as alternatives to multiple choice questions. Human Pathology 1997; 28(5): 526-532.

Veloski JJ, Rabinowitz HK, Robeson MR. A solution to the cueing effects of multiple choice questions: the UnQ format. Medical Education 1993; 27(4): 371-375.