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 |
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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 |
Good items mean Items without any flaw (violation).
This table is not one of our results, however, it is a review of different resourced that would serve comparison in the discussion.
2,770 multiple-choice questions were reviewed, out of them 36% (997) were derived from test-banks.