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Medical housestaff performance on the Facts of Aging Quiz
— a comparison of test formats | | Author(s) | B Josea Kramer, JoAnn Damron-Rodriguez, Martin Lee |
| Journal title | Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, vol 21, no 3, 2001 |
| Pages | pp 41-52 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Medical workers ; Teaching hospitals ; Ageing process ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The Facts on Ageing Quiz (FAQ) is a self-administered quiz that has been used to measure gerontological knowledge. The release of a multiple choice version of the FAQ provided the opportunity to compare performance of American medical house-staff on the true-false and multiple choice formats. This cross-sectional study evaluated performance of medical house-staff on the true-false version and on the multiple choice format. To understand selection of responses, an additional sample of medical house-staff were debriefed on their choices of answers to the true-false version. Findings show that the true-false format produced significantly more correct responses than the multiple choice version, and that physician performance on the FAQ varied with format of the quiz. The FAQ may not be a relevant instrument for determining knowledge of medical postgraduate residency trainees. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020222211 A |
| Classmark | QT: V6: BG: TOB: 4C: 7T |
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