ANALYSE EXAMINATION MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS OF SCHOOL OF NURSING

Objective: the purpose of this study was to analyse examination multiple choice questions asked in final examination in school of nursing between 2006 and 2007 years. methods: the research is a descriptive and retrospective study. multiple choice questions which asked in nursing and health i and nursing and health ii lessons’ final examinations were evaluated as a whole and then every item’s difficulty and discrimination indexes were counted. data were collected from the exam sheets of 388 students. nursing and health i consisted of five modules and nursing and health ii three modules. one hundred eighty eight multiple-choice questions which asked in final examinations were analyzed. first, questions are evaluated as a whole. difficulty index (p) and discrimination index (r) were determined using a microsoft excel computer program with some formulas according to suggestions made by kelley. because of analyzing item, every item’s difficulty and discrimination indexes were counted. results and conclusion: as a result, it was determined that examination questions of nursing and health ii were more easy (the difficulty index was low) and rate of good items were higher (the discrimination index was high) than nursing and health i. “should be corrected” and “should be extracted” items were high in both examinations.