The Predictive Power of Short Answer Questions in Undergraduate Medical Education Progress Difficulty

BackgroundTo better understand the link between formative assessments and progress difficulty, we conducted an analysis in the undergraduate MD program of the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine by comparing formative assessment scores on Short Answer Questions (SAQ) called Concept Application Exercises (CAE) with subsequent progress difficulty. CAE scores are designed to formatively assess knowledge translation. These scores are not …