Traditional psychometric approaches towards assessment tend to focus exclusively on
quantitative properties of assessment outcomes. This may limit more meaningful educational …

Weaknesses in the nature of rater judgments are generally considered to compromise the
utility of workplace-based assessment (WBA). In order to gain insight into the underpinnings …

Context Performance assessments, such as workplace‐based assessments (WBA s),
represent a crucial component of assessment strategy in medical education. Persistent …

Abstract Workplace-Based Assessment (WBA) plays a pivotal role in present-day
competency-based medical curricula. Validity in WBA mainly depends on how stakeholders …

Medical Education 2012: 46: 28–37 Context Historically, assessments have often measured
the measurable rather than the important. Over the last 30 years, however, we have …

When appraising the performance of others, assessors must acquire relevant information
and process it in a meaningful way in order to translate it effectively into ratings, comments …

Background Given the complexity of competency frameworks, associated skills and abilities,
and contexts in which they are to be assessed in competency‐based education (CBE), there …

Workplace-based assessment is more commonly given a lukewarm than a warm welcome
by its prospective users. In this article, we summarise the workplace-based assessment …

Objectives Since their introduction, workplace‐based assessments (WBAs) have proliferated
throughout postgraduate medical education. Previous reviews have identified mixed …

Medical educators are tasked with decisions on trainee progression and credentialing for
independent clinical practice, which requires robust evidence from workplace-based …