[HTML][HTML] Competency-based medical education and the McNamara fallacy: Assessing the important or making the assessed important?

T Singh, N Shah - Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, 2023 - journals.lww.com
The McNamara fallacy refers to the tendency to focus on numbers, metrics, and quantifiable
data while disregarding the meaningful qualitative aspects. The existence of such a fallacy …

“My assessments are biased!” measurement and sociocultural approaches to achieve fairness in assessment in medical education

KE Hauer, YS Park, JL Bullock, A Tekian - Academic Medicine, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Assessing learners is foundational to their training and developmental growth throughout
the medical education continuum. However, growing evidence shows the prevalence and …

An integrated model for road freight transport firm selection in third-party logistics using T-spherical Fuzzy sets

ÖF Görçün, P Chatterjee, Ž Stević… - … Research Part E …, 2024 - Elsevier
The efficient selection of road freight transport (RFT) firms plays a critical role in constructing
well-operating logistics systems for large-scale third-party logistics (3PL) providers …

“Rater training” re-imagined for work-based assessment in medical education

W Tavares, B Kinnear, DJ Schumacher… - Advances in Health …, 2023 - Springer
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 …

[HTML][HTML] What stops fairness from emerging in assessment? The forces on a complex adaptive system

N Valentine, SJ Durning, EM Shanahan… - … on medical education, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods: We conducted online focus groups with a purposeful sample of nineteen academic
leaders in the Netherlands. We used an iterative approach to collection, analysis and coding …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a more nuanced conceptualisation of differential examiner stringency in OSCEs

M Homer - Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2023 - Springer
Quantitative measures of systematic differences in OSCE scoring across examiners (often
termed examiner stringency) can threaten the validity of examination outcomes. Such effects …

Fixing a broken clerkship assessment process: reflections on objectivity and equity following the USMLE step 1 change to pass/fail

A Huynh, A Nguyen, RS Beyer, MH Harris… - Academic …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Clerkship grading is a core feature of evaluation for medical students' skills as physicians
and is considered by most residency program directors to be an indicator of future …

Students' Experiences of Fairness in Online Assessment: A Phenomenological Study in a Higher Education Institution Context

ME Eltahir, N Annamalai, A Uthayakumaran… - SAGE …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Online assessment is a new introduction in many developing countries during the COVID-19
pandemic, including Malaysia, Lithuania, and Spain. The current study conducted a …

Twelve tips for improving the quality of assessor judgements in senior medical student clinical assessments

BS Malau-Aduli, RB Hays, K D'Souza, SL Saad… - Medical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Assessment of senior medical students is usually calibrated at the level of achieving
expected learning outcomes for graduation. Recent research reveals that clinical assessors …

An Ideal System of Assessment to Support Competency-Based Graduate Medical Education: Key Attributes and Proposed Next Steps

RS Gates, K Marcotte, R Moreci, AE Krumm… - Journal of Surgical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Competency-based medical education (CBME) is the future of medical education and relies
heavily on high quality assessment. However, the current assessment practices employed …