Standard setting Very Short Answer Questions (VSAQs) relative to Single Best Answer Questions (SBAQs): does having access to the answers make a difference?

Table 2 Summary statistics comparing standards set for SBAQs and VSAQs

	Median SBAQ	Median VSAQ	Median difference (SBAQ-VSAQ)	Wilcoxon sign rank p-value; Z-score
Answers	60.65	49.95	13.85	p = 0.002; Z-score = -2.824
No-answers	60.90	63.70	-1.90	p = 0.700; Z-score = 0.445
Difference in medians (Answers—no-answers)	-0.25	-13.75
Mann whitney U; p-value; Z-score	p = 0.952; Z-score = 0.062	p = 0.014; Z-score = 2.462

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