Workshop on Item Writing for Basic Sciences in Health Education: An Experience Report

An experience report by Cinara Silva Feliciano details workshops on writing assessment items for basic sciences in health professional education. The report describes online workshops with asynchronous and synchronous components, participant surveys, and analysis of question quality using difficulty and discrimination indexes. The work is published under an Open Access (green) license on the paperswithcode platform.

Use Cases

• Designing faculty development programs based on the described workshop format combining asynchronous and synchronous learning.
• Analyzing the effectiveness of training interventions based on participant satisfaction and self-reported ability metrics mentioned in the report.
• Evaluating the quality of multiple-choice questions based on the difficulty and discrimination indexes referenced in the description.

Strengths

• The report includes specific outcome metrics, such as 7% of participants reporting they were not prepared to write items following good practices after the workshop.
• The instructional material and workshop format are described in detail, including the use of defined contexts for item lead-in elaboration.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

The dataset likely contains the text of an academic experience report describing workshops and their outcomes.