NBME® ITEM-WRITING GUIDE
NBME® ITEM-WRITING GUIDE
Learn how to write questions that more effectively assess your students' knowledge
Construct quality test questions for your health science students
The NBME Item-Writing Guide incorporates lessons that NBME staff have learned from decades of developing exam items and leading workshops in the field.
Now in its sixth edition, the NBME Item-Writing Guide provides faculty with:
- A general overview of topics such as item and vignette writing, as well as the basics of psychometrics and measurement
- Insight into improving the quality of multiple-choice items for the foundational and clinical sciences
- New content, including guidance on implementing patient characteristics in items and recent innovations in the use of alternate item types
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