Gaffas Eisha M, Sequeira Reginald P, Namla Riyadh A Al, Al-Harbi Khalid S
Al-Amal Complex for Mental Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Adv Med Educ Pract. 2012 May 24;3:31-46. doi: 10.2147/AMEP.S31045. Print 2012.
The postgraduate training program in psychiatry in Saudi Arabia, which was established in 1997, is a 4-year residency program. Written exams comprising of multiple choice questions (MCQs) are used as a summative assessment of residents in order to determine their eligibility for promotion from one year to the next. Test blueprints are not used in preparing examinations.
To develop test blueprints for the written examinations used in the psychiatry residency program.
Based on the guidelines of four professional bodies, documentary analysis was used to develop global and detailed test blueprints for each year of the residency program. An expert panel participated during piloting and final modification of the test blueprints. Their opinion about the content, weightage for each content domain, and proportion of test items to be sampled in each cognitive category as defined by modified Bloom's taxonomy were elicited.
Eight global and detailed test blueprints, two for each year of the psychiatry residency program, were developed. The global test blueprints were reviewed by experts and piloted. Six experts participated in the final modification of test blueprints. Based on expert consensus, the content, total weightage for each content domain, and proportion of test items to be included in each cognitive category were determined for each global test blueprint. Experts also suggested progressively decreasing the weightage for recall test items and increasing problem solving test items in examinations, from year 1 to year 4 of the psychiatry residence program.
A systematic approach using a documentary and content analysis technique was used to develop test blueprints with additional input from an expert panel as appropriate. Test blueprinting is an important step to ensure the test validity in all residency programs.
沙特阿拉伯的精神病学研究生培训项目于1997年设立，为期4年。由多项选择题（MCQ）组成的笔试用作住院医师的总结性评估，以确定他们是否有资格从一年晋升到下一年。编制考试时未使用测试蓝图。
为精神病学住院医师培训项目中使用的笔试编制测试蓝图。
根据四个专业机构的指导方针，采用文献分析为住院医师培训项目的每一年编制总体和详细的测试蓝图。一个专家小组参与了测试蓝图的试点和最终修改。征求了他们对内容、每个内容领域的权重以及根据修订后的布鲁姆分类法定义的每个认知类别中要抽取的测试项目比例的意见。
编制了八个总体和详细的测试蓝图，精神病学住院医师培训项目的每年各两个。总体测试蓝图由专家进行了评审和试点。六名专家参与了测试蓝图的最终修改。根据专家共识，为每个总体测试蓝图确定了内容、每个内容领域的总权重以及每个认知类别中要包含的测试项目比例。专家们还建议，在精神病学住院医师培训项目的第1年到第4年期间，逐步降低回忆性测试项目的权重，增加考试中解决问题的测试项目。
采用文献和内容分析技术的系统方法编制测试蓝图，并在适当的时候额外征求专家小组的意见。测试蓝图编制是确保所有住院医师培训项目测试有效性的重要一步。
