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Student Assessment: What Works, What Doesn’t
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Number of participants: 20-50
Learning objectives: This workshop will review various approaches to clinical assessment, with a view to using the evidence about reliability and validity to make informed choices among different methods. I will discuss methods both old (essay, viva, multiple choice, global ratings (ITER)) and new (Key Features, OSCE, mini-CEX) and examine
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- whether each is effective in assessing students and residents, and
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- what are the important underlying characteristics that contribute to its effectiveness.
Participants should, at the end of the workshop, have a better understanding of how to design an assessment system.
