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Perception of Students on Various Formats of Written Assessments in Education

Anjali D Patil , Sonali B Kankhare1 , Anjali D Patil2 , Bhiku H Bahetee3

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Indian Journal of Anatomy 8(3):p 215-218, . | DOI: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ija.2320.0022.8319.13
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Sonali B Kankhare, Anjali D Patil, Bhiku H Bahetee. Perception of Students on Various Formats of Written Assessments in Education. Indian J Anat. 2019;8(3):215-218.

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Introduction: Assessment is crucial to the educational process, and is useful that in assessing the knowledge. At under graduate level there are three domains of skill to be evaluated, a cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. The written assessment are to be done with the help of MCQ, SAQ, LAQ (open ended) essay writing. Aims: To assess the preferences of undergraduate medical student among the three formats of written assessment: LAQ, SAQ and MCQ. Settings and Designs: A cross sectional study was conducted on 100 students of first MBBS for the duration of four month from December 2016 to March 2017 at BJGMC. Pune. After the completion of lecture series exam was conducted and performance was assessed. Statistical analysis done and percentage was calculated. Results: 90% students would like to have MCQs in their regular exam. Student with strong factual and recalling ability, they opted for the MCQs. But the students with strong analytical or interpretative skill and those can apply knowledge they opt out for SAQ and LAQ. Conclusion: It should be combination of various methods and techniques assessment is based upon purpose of evaluation at various levels in the form of skill, knowledge and understanding.

Keywords: Assessment; Learning; Medical education.

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  • Sonali B Kankhare1
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  • Anjali D Patil2
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  • Bhiku H Bahetee3
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