Objective To survey medical students' views about the purposes and fairness of assessment
procedures. Method The survey used a 19‐item questionnaire designed for self‐completion …

Health professions education has undergone significant changes over the last few decades,
including the rise of competency-based medical education, a shift to authentic workplace …

Methods: Sixteen assessment leaders from 15 medical schools in Australia and New
Zealand participated in online focus groups. Data collection and analysis occurred …

What and how students learn depend largely on how they think they will be assessed. This
study aimed to explore medical students' perception of the value of assessment and …

Assessing learners is foundational to their training and developmental growth throughout
the medical education continuum. However, growing evidence shows the prevalence and …

The assessment of learners is one of those perennial topics in medical education that leads
to debate about the extent to which assessment rewards or undermines 'real'learning …

Context A recent study has suggested that assessors judge performance comparatively
rather than against fixed standards. Ratings assigned to borderline trainees were found to …

1. What is reliability? 1 Reliability refers to whether an assessment instrument gives the
same results each time it is used in the same setting with the same type of subjects …

Background: Faced with the challenge to develop models of assessment relevant to work of
physicians, medical schools have broadened their assessment of medical student …

Objectivity in the assessment of students and trainees has been a hallmark of quality since
the introduction of multiple-choice items in the 1960s. In medical education, this has …