NBME – Constructing Written Test Questions For the Basic and Clinical Sciences
This manual reflects lessons that the NBME Test Development Services unit has learned in developing items and examinations over the past 30 years.
ASME – Questionnaire construction and question writing for research in medical education
This booklet describes the basic principles of questionnaire construction and design using examples applicable to research in medical education.
Nelson – On Southbound Ease and Northbound Fees: Literal Consequences of the Metaphoric Link between Vertical Position and Cardinal Direction
Subject’s consistently predicted that it costs 3x to ship materials north vs south.
Schauss – Tranquilizing Effect of Color Reduces Aggressive Behavior and Potential Violence
Viewing the color tone “Bubblegum pink” reduces a subject’s physical strength by up to 23%.
Job – Implicit Theories About Willpower Predict Self-Regulation and Grades in Everyday Life
Students with growth mindset demonstrated a full letter grade improvement in GPA.
Kray – Implicit Negotiation Beliefs and Performance: Experimental and Longitudinal Evidence
Changing one’s mindset about their abilties effect those abilities.
Loftus – Reconstruction of Automobile Destruction:An Example of the Interaction Between Language and Memory’
Language used in questions asked subsequent to an event can cause a reconstruction in one’s memory of that event.
Balas and Boren – Managing Clinical Knowledge for Health Care Improvement
The original publication of the ’17 years from evidence-based best practice to broad utilization in practice’.
Riis – The Fresh Start Effect: Temporal Landmarks Motivate Aspirational Behavior
Behavioral goal achievement is enhanced when connected to new starts and temporal landmarks such as a birthday or beginning of a new month.
Knowles – The Modern Practice of Adult Education – From Pedagogy to Andragogy
The original 1980 introduction of andragogy as the study of adult learning.
