Research on Construction Validity of Examinations for Medical Subjects Using Factor Analysis / 中华医学教育探索杂志

We selected scores for histology and embryology,physiology,biochemistry,pathobiology,pharmacology,paediatrics,and medicine of the first-year(2004),second-year(2003),third-year(2002)students at a medical school as subjects to analyze construction validity using factor analysis.The common factors were selected if their cumulative value above 60%.The result showed that variance percentage explained by each factor was lower,and that the three level structure formed by recall,comprehend and application would not be explained ideally by these scores.The author considered that the examination items should be improved and it was limited for factor analysis method to apply to analyze medical examination items.

A Study on the Relationship among the Medical Students' Scoresof “3+X” Entrance Exam and their Scores of the Courses at University / 中华医学教育探索杂志

The authors calculated the correlation coeffi. of the scores of 3+X entrance exam and the scores of coursesat university in medical students of clinical medicine, medical imaging, anesthesiology. We found that there were rela-tionship among the overall score and English score of 3+X entrance exam as well as the scores of most major coursesat university in medical students, and there were relationship among the scores of chemistry and physics at entranceexam as well as the scores of partial major courses in the beginning at university. The result also indicated that entranceexam had a good prediction.[