Klatt & Klatt. How Much Is Too Much Reading for Medical Students? Assigned Reading and Reading Rates at One Medical School. Academic Medicine, Vol. 86, No. 9, p1079-1083 / September 2011.

Regards,

Chris

> Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 08:04:24 -0400
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> Subject: Re: Help Writing Good MCQs for MBA and Executive MBA Management Courses
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> Hello Jim,
>
> Thank you very much for your insights and your MCQ writing handout.
>
> My students do complain regularly about the volume of reading but I thought since it is a graduate course it was appropriate.
>
> i could probably cut down the length of the reading by 50% quite easily but I don't know if that would be advisable.
>
> Tony
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> From: Sibley, James Edward [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 12:53 PM
> To: Anthony Mento; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Help Writing Good MCQs for MBA and Executive MBA Management Courses
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> Hi Tony
>
> Attached is my MCQ writing handout.
>
> Remember the questions should be at the Table of Content level not the
> index level.....big picture, important concepts and definitions
>
> Wow....thatıs a lot of reading....our students complain if we give them 50
> pages for 2 weeks
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> On 12-05-15 8:53 AM, "Anthony Mento" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> >Hello,
> >I have been using TBL in my MBA and EMBA case-based management courses
> >since Sept. 2011. I feel the process leads to more learning and
> >interesting discussions than the previous Harvard type class case
> >discussion process that I followed. After using a typical case
> >discussion approach for the past 30 years, I am very excited with the TBL
> >process.
> >
> >I am having an extremely difficult time writing good MCQs for the RATs.
> >My questions tend to be too picky and mostly identification. Is there a
> >framework to follow that can provide a systematic approach to writing
> >good MCQs? I donıt seem to be getting better over time. I am aware of
> >the backward design approach for developing RAT questions but am finding
> >it near impossible to implement.
> >
> >Any guidance would be very much appreciated. For a typical 15 week
> >course, I have 5 RATs (20 MCQs each) for 5 modules covering 100-150
> >pages /module.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Tony Mento
> >
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> >Dr. Tony Mento
> >Loyola University Maryland
> >Loyola Graduate Center
> >2034 Greenspring Drive
> >Timonium, Maryland 21093-4115
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