Rating Scale Measures in Multiple-Choice Exams: Pilot Studies in Pharmacology

Table 4

Summary of performance in the 2013 regular exams and additional questions. The values given (except N and the correlations) are the respective percentage of the maximum possible value.

		N	Min	Max	Mean	SD	Pass rate	r with combined exam	r with final exam
Midterm exam		209	33.3	96.7	68.6	12.6	78.0	0.837	0.404
Final exam		209	16.7	83.3	57.2	12.6	48.8	0.839	1
Combined exam		209	28.3	83.3	62.9	10.6	69.4	1	0.839
Additional questions	MC group	58	44.0	78.0	58.5	8.1	5.2	0.343	0.316
	MTF group	56	38.0	88.0	61.6	10.1	10.7	−0.061	−0.054
	R4 group	48	46.0	80.0	63.7	8.0	10.4	−0.028	0.138

Significance with with respective N in each row; significance with with respective N in each row.