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SAAHE podcast 03 – Standard setting, with Scarpa Schoeman

Dec 6, 2017

in Assessment, Podcast

Cohen method, medical education, pass mark, standard setting

Would it be accurate to say the almost universal pass mark of 50% is completely arbitrary and almost indefensible?I would say it’s completely arbitrary and totally indefensible. Scarpa Schoeman In this conversation, Scarpa and I talk about his experience of standard setting in medical education. Scarpa has published a variety of peer-reviewed articles and presented…
SAFRI 2011 (session 2) – day 4

Jun 29, 2011

in Assessment, Curriculum, Education, Research, Teaching

angoff method, assessment, clinical assessment, faimer, mini-cex, objective structured clinical exam, osce, reliability, safri, standard setting, validity

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…