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Table 3 PDQ: 2012–2013 analysis by sub-specialty (total number of students: 192)

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

18 (100 %)

10 (100 %)

13 (100 %)

13 (100 %)

10 (100 %)

16 (100 %

80 (100 %)

Class max score

17.5 (97.2 %)

10 (100 %)

11.5 (84.5 %)

11 (84.6 %)

10 (100 %)

16 (100 %)

67.3 (84.1 %)

Class min score

1.5 (8.3 %)

2 (20 %)

1.35 (10.4 %)

1.5 (11.5 %)

2 (20 %)

0.5 (3.13 %)

19.5 (24.4 %)

Mean

8.81 (48.9 %)

7.27 (72.7 %)

5.2 (40 %)

7.41 (57 %)

7.83 (78.3 %)

9.67 (60.4 %)

14.4 (18 %)

No. of students pass

91 (47.4 %)

169 (88 %)

54 (28.1 %)

135 (70.3 %)

187 (97.4 %)

137 (71.4 %)

144 (75 %)

No. of students fail

101 (52.6 %)

23 (12 %)

138 (71.9 %)

57 (28.7 %)

5 (2.6 %)

55 (28.6 %)

49 (25 %)

Question type by blooms’s taxonomy (Total scores)

 I: Simple recall (list/name)

12 (66.7 %)

6 (60.0 %)

5 (38.5 %)

9 (69.2 %)

7 (70.0 %)

3 (18.8. %)

42 (52.5 %)

 II: explain/describe

2 (11.1 %)

4 (30.8 %)

2 (15.4 %)

4 (25.0 %)

12 (15.0 %)

 III: applied

3 (16.7 %)

3 (30.0 %)

3 (23.1 %)

2 (20.0 %)

6 (37.5 %)

16 (20.0 %)

 IV: interpret, problem solving

1 (5.6 %)

1 (10.0 %)

1 (7.7 %)

2 (15.4 %)

1 (10.0 %)

3 (18.8 %)

9 (11.3 %)

  1. χ2 = 42.75 (P = <0.01, 13.28)