Medical Education 2011: 45: 329–338 Context Script concordance test (SCT) scores are
intended to reflect respondents' competence in interpreting clinical data under conditions of …

Medical Education 2012: 46: 552–563 Context Programmes of assessment should measure
the various components of clinical competence. Clinical reasoning has been traditionally …

Context In education, tests are primarily used for assessment, thus permitting teachers to
assess the efficacy of their curriculum and to assign grades. However, research in cognitive …

Background: The Script Concordance (SC) test is a new assessment tool. It is designed to
probe whether knowledge of examinees is efficiently organized for clinical actions. That kind …

The script concordance test (SCT) is used in health professions education to assess a
specific facet of clinical reasoning competence: the ability to interpret medical information …

Background Script theory proposes an explanation for how information is stored in and
retrieved from the human mind to influence individuals' interpretation of events in the world …

Current written tools of assessment are mostly measuring the capacity to solve well-defined
problems by the application of rules and principles, while the essence of expertise in the …

Background The script concordance (SC) test was conceived to measure knowledge
organization, the presence of links between items of knowledge which allow for …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Clinical reasoning is a crucial skill for all residents to acquire during
their training. During most patient encounters in pediatric emergency medicine, physicians …

Background An ongoing debate exists in the medical education literature regarding the
potential benefits of pattern recognition (non-analytic reasoning), actively comparing and …