Development of a searchable database of veterinary MCQs with educational feedback, for independent learning
Year: 2006
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The OCTAVE Project aims to provide the students of the English veterinary schools with a database of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) to support their learning. The questions have been written by veterinary academic staff and practitioners, and contain educational feedback to aid the students ’ understanding of the correct response. There is always a problem when assembling a database to serve multiple institutions in that the curriculum content and sequence is likely to be different. Therefore, it is essential that the students can select the appropriate categories of questions to use. In order to make the database readily searchable, questions have been meta-tagged so that students from any institution can make selections in a defined subject area. The search tags for the questions are: • Stage of course: i.e. preclinical or clinical
Authors: Stan D. Head, C. Ogden
Institution: Royal Veterinary College
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1153143673