Quality of multiple-choice questions in medical internship qualification examination determined by item response theory at Debre Tabor University, Ethiopia

Table 4 Relationship between difficulty index and discrimination index of MCQs in the undergraduate medical qualification exam at DTU, 2021

Difficulty index	Discrimination index		Total	p-value
Difficulty index	Poor (Less than 0.2)	Acceptable (≥ 0.2)	Total	p-value
Difficult (less than 0.3)	16	4	20	0.945
Desirable (0.3–0.7)	39	12	51
Easy (> 0.7)	36	10	19
Total	91	26	117

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