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Table 4 PDQ: 2013–2014 analysis by sub-specialty (Total number of students: 220)

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

Public health

Total

Total score possible

13.5 (100 %)

8 (100 %)

12 (100 %)

12 (100 %)

13.5 (100 %)

13 (100 %)

3 (100 %)

75 (100 %)

Class max score

13.5 (100 %)

7.5 (93.8 %)

12 (100 %)

12 (100 %)

13.5 (100 %)

13 (100 %)

3 (100 %)

65.17

Class min score

1 (7.4)

0 (0 %)

1 (8.3 %)

0 (0 %)

3 (22.2 %)

0 (0 %)

1 (33.3 %)

17.00

Mean

10 (54.8 %)

4.4 (55 %)

6.5 (54.2 %)

5.1 (42.5 %)

9.2 (68.1 %)

6.3 (48.2 %)

2.69 (89.7 %)

41.5 (55.4 %)

No. of students pass

186 (84.5 %)

156 (70.9 %)

131 (59.6 %)

89 (40.5 %)

202 (91.8 %)

103 (46.3 %)

219 (99.5 %)

162 (73.6 %)

No. of students fail

34 (15.5 %)

64 (29.1 %

89 (40.4 %)

131 (59.5 %)

18 (8.2 %)

117 (53.2 %)

1 (0.5 %)

58 (26.4 %)

Question type by Blooms’s taxonomy (total scores)

 I: simple recall (list/name)

11 (81.5 %)

5.5 (68.75 %

6 (50 %)

4.5 (37.5 %)

10.5 (77.8 %)

3 (23.1 %)

3 (100 %)

43.5 (58 %)

 II: explain/describe

2.5 (31.25 %)

3 (23.15)

5.5 (7.33 %)

 III: applied

2.5 (18.5 %)

3 (25 %)

3.5 (29.2 %)

3 (22.2)

7 (53.8 %)

19 (25.33 %)

 IV: interpret, problem solving

3 (25 %)

4 (33.3 %)

7 (9.33 %)

  1. χ2 = 65.88 (P = <0.01, 13.28)