Tag: clinical assessment
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Assessment and data assemblages: Changing the world simply by ‘being’ in it
We use student achievement in tests and exams to try and make accurate predictions about their future performance but we know that this practice is neither valid nor reliable. The test environment doesn’t look like the real world environment (so it’s not valid), and the metrics we use to measure test outcomes aren’t reliable because…
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SAAHE podcast 02 – Mapping exit-level assessment, with Christina Tan
In this conversation with Christina Tan, we discuss her research around clinical competence and assessment. This is the second in our podcast series on research in health professions education. If you have any suggestions for future conversations, please let us know in the comments. If you’d like to read more about Christina’s work, here is…
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Objective Structured Clinical Exams
This is the first draft of the next piece of content that I’ll be publishing in my Clinical Teacher app. Abstract The Objective Structured Clinical Examination was introduced as an assessment method that aimed to address some of the challenges that arose with the assessment of students’ competence in clinical skills. In a traditional clinical…
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SAFRI 2011 (session 2) – day 4
Reliability and validity Validity Important for assessment, not only for research It’s the scores that are valid and reliable, not the instrument Sometimes the whole is greater than the sum of the parts e.g. when a student gets all the check marks but doesn’t perform competently overall e.g. the examiner can tick each competency being…