- Journal of Experimental and Clinical Medicine
- Vol: 34 Issue: 4
- Assessment of Medicine Faculty Biostatistics Exam with Different Models
Assessment of Medicine Faculty Biostatistics Exam with Different Models
Authors : Leman TOMAK
Pages : 257-262
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Publication Date : 2019-10-10
Article Type : Research
Abstract :The most important goal of a test is having reliable and valid measurement tools. The purpose of this study is to conduct item analysis to questions for an exam which measures the biostatistics knowledge of students and to assess the Biostatistics Program. The study group consists of a total of 261 students in their second year of Ondokuz Mayıs University Faculty of Medicine. 132 (50.6%) of the students are female, while 129 (49.4%) are male. Item analysis was assessed by using classical method and Rasch analysis. The average value of the test which consisted of a total of 60 multiple choice questions was 47.47± 6.99; the lowest score was 15, while the highest score was 57. KR 20 value was found as 0.86. When all the questions were analyzed with Rasch analysis, item difficulty of 75% of the items was between -1.60 and 1.60. As a conclusion, the exam was found to be reliable and it was shown to be a moderately difficult exam which assessed the knowledge of the students. Future studies are planned to assess Biostatistics teaching in different levels of class.Keywords : Rasch analysis, item difficulty, item discrimination