Table 1 Rubric for assessing MCQ complexity
From: Medical students create multiple-choice questions for learning in pathology education: a pilot study
Level | Corresponds to Bloom’s Taxonomy | Description |
|---|---|---|
Level 1 | Knowledge & comprehension | Knowing and interpreting facts about a disease, classification, signs & symptoms, procedures, tests. |
Level 2 | Application | Applying information about a patient (signs & symptoms, demographics, behaviours) to solve a problem (diagnose, treat, test) |
Level 3 | Synthesis & evaluation | Using several different pieces of information about a patient to understand the whole picture, combining information to infer which is most probable. |