{"id":16711,"date":"2025-10-09T11:55:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/?post_type=blog_post&#038;p=16711"},"modified":"2025-10-09T11:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:55:06","slug":"enhancing-assessment-quality-effective-mcq-writing-at-dmu","status":"publish","type":"blog_post","link":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/blog-post\/enhancing-assessment-quality-effective-mcq-writing-at-dmu\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhancing Assessment Quality: Effective MCQ Writing at DMU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"justify\">The Academic Support Department, in collaboration with the Examination and Assessment Unit and the Faculty Development Team of Dubai Medical University, organized a professional development workshop titled <strong>\u201cEffective MCQ Writing for Assessments.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\">The session, conducted by <strong>Prof. Salah Eldin Kassab<\/strong>, engaged faculty members in an insightful discussion on the principles of constructing high-quality multiple-choice questions (MCQs) that effectively assess students\u2019 understanding and higher-order thinking skills. The session covered best practices in question design, common pitfalls to avoid, and techniques to align MCQs with learning outcomes and assessment standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\">The interactive workshop emphasized the importance of validity, reliability, and fairness in assessments, and included practical examples and peer review exercises to enhance faculty members\u2019 skills in MCQ development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\">This initiative reflects DMU\u2019s continued commitment to promoting excellence in teaching, learning, and assessment practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"793\" src=\"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/uaq_mq2025sep.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/uaq_mq2025sep.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/uaq_mq2025sep-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/uaq_mq2025sep-768x609.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/uaq_mq2025sep-530x420.jpg 530w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Academic Support Department, in collaboration with the Examination and Assessment Unit and the Faculty Development Team of Dubai Medical University, organized a professional development workshop titled \u201cEffective MCQ Writing for Assessments.\u201d The session, conducted by Prof. Salah Eldin Kassab, engaged faculty members in an insightful discussion on the principles of constructing high-quality multiple-choice questions <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"blog-category":[69],"class_list":["post-16711","blog_post","type-blog_post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","blog-category-dmu"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_post\/16711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16711"},{"taxonomy":"blog-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog-category?post=16711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}