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Determining measures of insight and foresight from responses to multiple choice questions

Mike TweedUniversity of Otago, New Zealand; MIKE TWEED, MBChB, MMedSci, FRACP, FRCP, is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medicine, University of Otago, Wellington, and a PhD candidate. His research interests include developing the MCQ format in assessment of undergraduate medical students.Correspondence[email protected]
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Mark Thompson-FawcettUniversity of Otago, New Zealand; MARK THOMPSON-FAWCETT, MBChB, MD, FRACS, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgical Sciences, Dunedin School of Medicine.
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Peter SchwartzUniversity of Otago, New Zealand; PETER SCHWARTZ, BSc, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology, Otago School of Medical Sciences.
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Tim J. WilkinsonUniversity of Otago, New Zealand; TIM WILKINSON, MBChB, MClinEd, PhD, MD, FRACP, FRCP, is a Professor and Associate Dean for Medical Education in the Medical Education Unit, University of Otago, Christchurch.
Pages 127-133 | Published online: 05 Nov 2012

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Mike Tweed, Robin Willink & Tim J. Wilkinson. (2023) Using MCQ response certainty to determine how aspects of self‐monitoring develop through a medical course. Medical Education.
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Charles Herbaux, Aurélie Dupré, Wendy Rénier, Ludovic Gabellier, Emmanuel Chazard, Philippe Lambert, Vincent Sobanski, Didier Gosset, Dominique Lacroix & Patrick Truffert. (2022) Formative Assessment of Diagnostic Testing in Family Medicine with Comprehensive MCQ Followed by Certainty-Based Mark. Healthcare 10:8, pages 1558.
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Hélen Kaline Farias Bezerra, Kamilla Karla Maurício Passos, Augusto César Leal da Silva Leonel, Elaine Judite de Amorim Carvalho, Eduarda Helena Leandro do Nascimento, Flávia Maria de Moraes Ramos‐Perez & Danyel Elias da Cruz Perez. (2021) Identifying misconceptions about oral radiology and medicine among dental students. Journal of Dental Education 86:2, pages 144-153.
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Renata Grazziotin-Soares, Coca Blue, Rachel Feraro, Kristen Tochor, Thiago Machado Ardenghi, Donald Curtis & Diego Machado Ardenghi. (2021) The interrelationship between confidence and correctness in a multiple-choice assessment: pointing out misconceptions and assuring valuable questions. BDJ Open 7:1.
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Mike Tweed, Gordon Purdie & Tim Wilkinson. (2020) Defining and tracking medical student self-monitoring using multiple-choice question item certainty. BMC Medical Education 20:1.
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Mike Tweed. (2019) Adding to the debate on the numbers of options for MCQs: the case for not being limited to MCQs with three, four or five options. BMC Medical Education 19:1.
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R. Grazziotin-Soares, S. L. Lind, D. M. Ardenghi & D. A. Curtis. (2018) Misconceptions amongst dental students: How can they be identified?. European Journal of Dental Education 22:1, pages e101-e106.
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M.J. Tweed, S. Stein, T.J. Wilkinson, G. Purdie & J. Smith. (2017) Certainty and safe consequence responses provide additional information from multiple choice question assessments. BMC Medical Education 17:1.
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Mike Tweed, Gordon Purdie & Tim Wilkinson. (2017) Low performing students have insightfulness when they reflect-in-action. Medical Education 51:3, pages 316-323.
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M. Grabe & B. Holfeld. (2014) Estimating the degree of failed understanding: a possible role for online technology. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 30:2, pages 173-186.
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