1st Online Workshop on Item Analysis in Medical Education

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Language: English

Instructors: Dr Pragya Kumar

₹150

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🏫 Workshop on Item Analysis in Medical Education

📅 Date & Time: 31st October, 1:30 – 4:30 PM

🎯 Who Should Attend
  • Medical and dental faculty involved in teaching and assessments
  • Nursing and allied health educators
  • Postgraduates interested in medical education research
  • Curriculum planners and examiners preparing high-stakes exams

📌 Session Learning Objectives (SLOs) By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Explain the importance of test and item analysis in medical education
  2. Define and interpret Difficulty Index, Discrimination Index, and Distractor Efficiency
  3. Perform basic item analysis using jamovi / spreadsheets
  4. Identify good vs poor quality items for a question bank
  5. Apply item analysis results to revise, replace, or retain questions in high-stakes exams

📌 Before the Workshop:

  • Content and resources will be uploaded here closer to the workshop start date.
  • You will also receive timely updates and instructions via email.
📌 What You Will Get:
  • 🎥 Session recording – available on the same day for review.
  • 📂 All content, data, and materials used in the workshop.
  • 🏅 Participation Certificate – awarded after completing a short post-workshop MCQ-based assessment.
  • 🤝 Continuous hand-holding and support on this topic beyond the workshop.

Why this course?

Description

Assessment drives learning, and the quality of assessments depends on the quality of questions. This 1st Online Workshop on Item Analysis in Medical Education is designed to equip medical, dental, nursing, and allied health educators with practical skills to evaluate and improve multiple-choice questions (MCQs) through scientific item analysis.

In this interactive, hands-on workshop, participants will:

  • Explore the concepts of Difficulty Index, Discrimination Index, and Distractor Efficiency.
  • Learn how to interpret Item-Total (RIT) and Item-Rest (RIR) correlations.
  • Perform real-time item analysis using jamovi with sample data.
  • Discuss how to build and maintain a high-quality question bank for formative and summative assessments.
  • Understand the role of item analysis in ensuring fairness, validity, and reliability of exams.

Through case-based discussions, live demonstrations, and practice exercises, participants will gain both conceptual clarity and practical skills. By the end of the workshop, you will be able to identify flawed items, revise questions effectively, and apply evidence-based approaches to enhance the quality of your assessments.

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