The Library
Twelve tips for introducing very short answer questions (VSAQs) into your medical curriculum
Tools
Bala, Laksha, Westacott, Rachel J., Brown, Celia A. and Sam, Amir H. (2023) Twelve tips for introducing very short answer questions (VSAQs) into your medical curriculum. Medical Teacher, 45 (5). pp. 360-367. doi:10.1080/0142159x.2022.2093706 ISSN 0142-159X.
|
PDF
WRAP-twelve-tips-for-introducing-very-short-answer-questions-(VSAQs)-into-your-medical-curriculum-Brown-2022.pdf - Published Version - Requires a PDF viewer. Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives 4.0. Download (1616Kb) | Preview |
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159x.2022.2093706
Abstract
Most undergraduate written examinations use multiple-choice questions, such as single best answer questions (SBAQs) to assess medical knowledge. In recent years, a strong evidence base has emerged for the use of very short answer questions (VSAQs). VSAQs have been shown to be an acceptable, reliable, discriminatory, and cost-effective assessment tool in both formative and summative undergraduate assessments. VSAQs address many of the concerns raised by educators using SBAQs including inauthentic clinical scenarios, cueing and test-taking behaviours by students, as well as the limited feedback SBAQs provide for both students and teachers. The widespread use of VSAQs in medical assessment has yet to be adopted, possibly due to lack of familiarity and experience with this assessment method. The following twelve tips have been constructed using our own practical experience of VSAQs alongside supporting evidence from the literature to help medical educators successfully plan, construct and implement VSAQs within medical curricula.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Medicine -- Study and teaching (Higher), Medicine -- Curricula, Medical education, Medicine -- Examinations, questions, etc., Medical sciences -- Examinations, questions, etc. | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Medical Teacher | ||||||
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||||
ISSN: | 0142-159X | ||||||
Official Date: | 2023 | ||||||
Dates: |
|
||||||
Volume: | 45 | ||||||
Number: | 5 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 360-367 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/0142159x.2022.2093706 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 August 2022 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 August 2022 | ||||||
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant: |
|
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year