Assessing the Difficulty and Long-Term Retention of Factual and Conceptual Knowledge Through Multiple-Choice Questions: A Longitudinal Study.

Adv Med Educ Pract · 2024 · PMC11653852 · PMID 39697781

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Both question types showed similar proportional declines in performance from 2020 to 2022, but the decline in recall/verbatim performance was statistically significant, while the decline in concept/inference was nearly statistically significant.

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