The impact of repeated item development training on the prediction of medical faculty members' item difficulty index.
Hye Yoon LeeSo Jung YuneSang Yeoup LeeSun-Ju ImBee Sung KamPublished in: BMC medical education (2024)
Repeated item development training, which includes predicting each item's difficulty index, can enhance faculty members' ability to predict and adjust item difficulty accurately. To ensure that the difficulty of the examination aligns with its intended purpose, item development training can be beneficial. Further studies on faculty development are necessary to explore these benefits more comprehensively.