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• TITLE: Short Answer Questions or Modified Essay questions – More Than a Technical Issue

  AUTHORS: Sven Wallerstedt, Gudrun Erickson, Susanna M. Wallerstedt

  KEYWORDS: Evaluation; Examination; Medical School; Modified Essay Questions; Validity

  JOURNAL NAME: International Journal of Clinical Medicine, Vol.3 No.1, January 5, 2012

  ABSTRACT: Purpose, The present article was built on the assumption that the form of an examination may influence learning, and may also reflect different kinds of knowledge. The aim of the study was to evaluate whether the results of an examination differ when short answer questions (SAQ) or modified essay questions (MEQ) are used. Method, Forty-nine students in the internal medicine course in Gothenburg, Sweden, performed a written examination in 2003, which included both SAQ and MEQ. Result, The correlation between the results of SAQ and MEQ was 0.59 (P