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    Multiple Choice Questions in Anatomy and Neurobiology for Undergraduates
    Multiple Choice Questions in Anatomy and Neurobiology for Undergraduates
    Multiple Choice Questions in Anatomy and Neurobiology for Undergraduates
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    Multiple Choice Questions in Anatomy and Neurobiology for Undergraduates

    By Michael J. Blunt and M. Girgis

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    Multiple Choice Questions in Anatomy and Neurobiology for Undergraduates is a collection of multiple choice questions in anatomy and neurobiology for undergraduate students. Questions are grouped for each visceral system and the nervous system. In the case of the body framework (including peripheral nerves and blood vessels), however, a regional grouping is used. Each question has the corresponding correct answer. This book is comprised of eight chapters covering the upper limb, head and neck, musculoskeletal trunk, lower limb, cardiovascular and respiratory systems, gastrointestinal and genito-urinary systems, and neurobiology. Each chapter contains three types of questions designed to test knowledge in different ways. Type A items involve choosing a single correct answer from five available choices. Type L items are used to elicit information on the cause-effect relationship between sets of data. Type E items call for the perception of one or more correct responses among four alternatives, and the responses may be grouped in five different ways. Most questions are also accompanied by an indication of the percentage of students who obtained the correct answer on occasions of previous settings and by a biserial correlation coefficient (r biserial), indicative of the capacity of the question to distinguish between more able and less able students. This monograph is primarily intended for medical undergraduates and will also be useful to academic anatomists building up their own question banks.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateOct 22, 2013
    ISBN9781483141824
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      Multiple Choice Questions in Anatomy and Neurobiology for Undergraduates - Michael J. Blunt

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      Preface

      The preparation of reliable, unambiguous multiple choice questions constitutes a lengthy and exacting task. Even though a committee of individuals may have scrutinized questions before their acceptance into a bank, ambiguities frequently become apparent only after use and in consequence of item analysis of question data. For this reason academic departments tend to hoard multiple choice questions, aspiring, usually unsuccessfully, to keep them secret from the students on whom they are used. Opportunities for learning from the questions are thus hindered rather than fostered.

      It is hoped that the publication of this collection of questions will somewhat diminish the need for such hoarding and secrecy. The majority are accompanied by item analyses which would enable them to be used with confidence for testing relevant subject content.

      For students, especially those subjected to objective tests of performance, the opportunity to obtain feed-back from responses to multiple choice questions is always welcome. In this instance the feed-back will be certainly fuller and more reliable than may be obtained from previously untested questions.

      This collection of questions has been drawn from a question bank built up for specifically undergraduate tests through several years of use. Many past and present members of the academic staff of the Department of Anatomy in the University of Sydney have been involved in either its initial compilation or subsequent modifications. To all of these we extend our grateful thanks. In particular we are indebted to Dr. A. E. Sefton and Professor W. Burke for the physiology questions in the section of neurobiology, and to Dr. M. Arnold for carefully checking the manuscript and proofs.

      Finally we wish to acknowledge the painstaking typing and the useful suggestions on format which emanated from Ms. Robyn Vears, Departmental Secretary and Miss Maria Karlsson-Lillas, former occupant of that position.

      Sydney

      Michael Blunt and Makram Girgis

      Chapter 1

      Description, Aims, Suggestions to Users

      Publisher Summary

      This chapter presents multiple choice questions (MCQ) that are primarily intended for the use of medical undergraduates. It has three main aims: (1) to facilitate the learning of topographical anatomy and neurobiology, (2) to provide a measure by which progress may be assessed, and (3) to provide practice in anatomy MCQs. Questions have been grouped for each visceral system and the nervous system in the case of the body framework. In fostering the aim of providing students with an immediate measure of progress, each question has been accompanied alongside by its correct answer. Most questions are also accompanied by an indication of the percentage of students who obtained correct answer on occasions of previous settings and by a biserial correlation coefficient (r biserial), indicative of the capacity of the question to distinguish between more able and less able students. Thus, students can tell at a glance whether the question they have attempted has been validated by previous use and if so, what levels of difficulty and discrimination it presented. An item analysis, when given, is indicative of valid testing in relation to the objectives on which the question is based. Student users should understand that with higher r biserials, there is a greater likelihood that more able members of previous cohorts of students setting a question did not encounter ambiguities or semantic problems. Such problems are a well-known hazard of multiple choice questions, and the best guarantee that they have been overcome is the evidence of an r biserial reaching at least the 0.05 level of significance. In the instances in which no item analysis is given, questions have not been tested by previous use and their reliability is as yet an unknown quantity.

      This book of multiple choice questions is primarily intended for the use of medical undergraduates, for whom it has three main aims.

      (1) To facilitate the learning of topographical anatomy and neurobiology.

      (2) To provide a measure by which progress may be assessed.

      (3) To provide practice in anatomy MCQ’s.

      It is, in addition, hoped that the questions presented will be useful to academic anatomists building up their own question

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