Development of the Parallel Test about Prescription Writing for Medical Students

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Anupong Kantiwong
Shotiga Pasiphol

Abstract

The objective of this study wasto develop a parallel test about prescription writing for medicalstudents andverified the test quality. The populationconsisted of 231 medical students in 3rd –5th year of Phramongkutklao College of Medicine testing byparallel test comprised 10 multiple-choice items. The study result: In item response theory, there is a parallel income commentaries 90%item-parallelsandmean square deviation of test information calculated to be 0.008, which indicates a parallel test different from monitoring by the classical test theory which accounted for 80% item-parallels with a mean scores that was statistically different (t=3.025, p=0.003)that indicated thetest werenot parallel.Summary of the result: Theproportion ofitem parallelism indexbased on item response theory washigherthanclassicaltest theory and this test parallelism index demonstrated on item response theory difference with classicaltest theory is not parallel.

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