Development of Modified Essay Question Test to Measure the Ability in Clinical Decision Making Skills for Medical Student of Prince of Songkla University
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The objectives of this study were to develop and evaluate the modified essay question test to measure the ability in clinical decision making skills for medical student of prince of songkla university. The sample consisted of 127 sixth-year medical students during the academic year 2016 of prince of songkla university, selected by stratified random sampling. The instrument was a modified essay question test to measure the ability in clinical decision making skills for medical student, consisting of 35 items about 5 situation. The findings were as follows. The difficulty values of the instrument ranged from 0.31 to 0.79. The discriminative values of the instrument ranged from 0.21 to 0.45. The reliability values was 0.701. The content validity valued ranged from 0.67 to 1.00 in IOC. On the concurrent validity, the score for the test correlated with the score for practice at the 0.01 level of statistical significance and the results of the analysis of the test quality in generalizability study showed that the G-coefficient for relative decisions was 0.921 and the G-coefficient for absolute decisions was 0.896
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