Table 1. Cronbach’s alpha, average Rir score and mean (SD) scores for the MCQs and VSAQs in MCQfirst and VSAQfirst.
| Regulation and Metabolism | Diseases of the Abdomen | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCQfirst | VSAQfirst | MCQfirst | VSAQfirst | |||||
| MCQ (n = 104) | VSAQ (n = 104) | VSAQ (n = 112) | MCQ (n = 112) | MCQ (n = 90) | VSAQ (n = 85) | VSAQ (n = 69) | MCQ (n = 64) | |
| Cronbach’s α | 0.57 | 0.61 | 0.74 | 0.71 | 0.83 | 0.90 | 0.87 | 0.71 |
| Average Rir (SD) | 0.17 (0.13) | 0.19 (0.14) | 0.27 (0.15) | 0.27 (0.09) | 0.39 (0.10) | 0.49 (0.13) | 0.43 (0.10) | 0.26 (0.10) |
| Mean score (SD), % | 71.2 (12.2) | 72.3 (12.9) | 57.0 (15.7) | 75.4 (14.1) | 70.0 (19.7) | 58.4 (25.9) | 51.6 (23.9) | 72.5 (15.0) |
MCQ, multiple choice question; VSAQ, very short answer question; SD, standard deviation.