The ability to assess learning outcomes is vital to effective teaching. Without understanding
what students have learned, it is impossible to tailor information, tasks or feedback …

Assessors' scores in performance assessments are known to be highly variable. Attempted
improvements through training or rating format have achieved minimal gains. The …

Giving students a choice of assessment methods is one approach to developing an inclusive
curriculum. However, both staff and students raise concerns about its fairness, often …

Performance-based assessment (PBA) is a valued assessment approach in medical
education, be it in a clerkship, residency, or practice context. Raters are intrinsic to PBA and …

Although the desire to be treated fairly is a fundamental human preference, perceptions of
fair treatment can be influenced by cultural beliefs and values. For this article, the author …

Introduction Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England are tasked with making
difficult decisions on which healthcare services to provide against the background of limited …

Accountability for reasonableness is an ethical framework for fair priority setting process.
This framework has been used to evaluate fairness in several contexts, and a few studies …

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

In this perspective, the authors critically examine “rater training” as it has been
conceptualized and used in medical education. By “rater training,” they mean the …

Fair assessment in the classroom is a concern from student, teacher, principal and public
perspectives. Standards and policies also underscore fairness as a key underpinning for …