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. 2022 Aug 31;12(3):138–147. doi: 10.1055/s-0042-1755332

Table 5. b Comparison of the number of the reviewed questions and percentage of different items in the previously published, with the currently reported results .

No. Reference Year Discipline No of test banks or books Reviewed questions Good items a One-item flaws >1 item flaws
1 The current study 2022 Medical discipline 20 2,300 23 30 47
2 Ellsworth et al 15 1990 Educational psychology 14 1,080 39 44 17
3 Hansen and Dexter 16 1997 Business auditing 10 400 25 42 33
4 Garrison et al 26 1997 Business law 11 440 33 46 21
5 Bailey et al 27 1998 Accounting 16 100 94 6
6 Masters et al 17 2001 Nursing 17 2,913 24 76
7 Moncada and Harmon 28 2004 Accounting 5 684
8 Tarrant et al 13 2006 Nursing 997 c 46 34 20
9 Ibbett and Wheldon 29 2016 Financial accounting 6 263 33 56 10
a

Good items mean Items without any flaw (violation).

b

This table is not one of our results, however, it is a review of different resourced that would serve comparison in the discussion.

c

2,770 multiple-choice questions were reviewed, out of them 36% (997) were derived from test-banks.