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Table 2 PDQ: 2011–2012 analysis by sub-specialty (total number of students: 203)

From: Evaluation of the effectiveness of progressive disclosure questions as an assessment tool for knowledge and skills in a problem based learning setting among third year medical students at The University of The West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago

 

Anatomical pathology

Chemical pathology

Haematology

Immunology

Microbiology

Pharmacology

Total

Total score possible

16 (100 %)

4 (100 %)

15 (100 %)

13 (100 %)

7 (100 %)

15 (100 %)

70 (100 %)

Class max score

14 (87.5 %)

4 (100 %)

15 (100 %)

12 (92.3 %)

7 (100 %)

12.5 (83.3 %)

57 (81.4 %)

Class min score

0 (0 %)

0 (0 %)

3 (20.0 %)

3 (25.0 %)

1.75 (25.0 %)

1 (6.7 %)

12 (17.1 %)

Mean

6.5 (40.6 %)

3.2 (80.0 %)

8.9 (59.3 %)

7.8 (60.0 %)

6.1 (87.1 %)

5.5 (36.7 %)

35.2 (50.3 %)

No. of students pass

52 (25.6 %)

188 (92.6 %)

170 (83.7 %)

156 (76.8 %)

201 (99.0 %)

28 (13.8 %)

155 (76.4 %)

No. of students fail

151 (74.4 %)

15 (7.4 %)

33 (16.3 %)

47 (23.2 %)

2 (1.0 %)

175 (86.2 %)

48 (23.6 %)

Question type by blooms’s taxonomy (total scores)

 I: simple recall (list/name)

8 (50.0 %)

4 (100 %)

4 (26.7 %)

9 (69.2 %)

6 (85.7 %)

6 (40.0 %)

37 (52.9 %)

 II: explain/describe

4 (26.7 %)

5 (33.3 %)

9 (12.9 %)

 III: applied

6 (37.5 %)

4 (26.7 %)

2 (15.4 %)

4 (26.7 %)

16 (22.9 %)

 IV: interpret, problem solving

2 (12.5 %)

3 (20.0 %)

2 (15.4 %)

1 (14.3 %)

8 (14.4 %)

  1. χ2 = 41.68 (P = <0.01, 13.28)