Other Public Sector Research Funding

Project Title: Standard Setting and Examiniation Processing for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons' Basc Surgical Sciences MCQ Examination.

Chief Investigator(s): Professor Patrick Griffin, Dr Margaret Wu, Nathan Zoanetti

Funded by: Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

Project Summary: the objectives are to provide the College with routine processing and analysis of the Basic Surgical Sciences MCQ Examination. The elements of the project included:

• configurating and validating of scanning applications for the MCQ examination;
• producing formatted data files tailored to analysis requirements;
• implementating of Rasch scaling to examination data to calibrate item difficulty and discrimination profiles for both dichotomous and partial credit items;
• implementation of Rasch scaling of examination data to assist the creation of consistent examination difficulty profiles;
• assessment of examination reliability;
• implementation of Rasch scaling of examination data to create candidate abilty estimates and item candidate maps; and
• calculation of cut scores and updating of the item-logit database.

For other work completed as part of this project for the sponsor please go to the Assessment Research Centre site.