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 …

Purpose At present, little is known about how mini-clinical evaluation exercise (mini-CEX)
raters translate their observations into judgments and ratings. The authors of this systematic …

Abstract Introduction In 2011 the Consensus Statement on Performance Assessment was
published in Medical Teacher. That paper was commissioned by AMEE (Association for …

The assessment of healthcare professionals is a critical determinant of patient safety and
healthcare quality, playing both a gatekeeping function and a path toward performance …

Whenever multiple observers provide ratings, even of the same performance, inter-rater
variation is prevalent. The resulting 'idiosyncratic rater variance'is considered to be unusable …

Context: There is a growing body of research investigating assessor judgments in complex
performance environments such as OSCE examinations. Post hoc analysis can be …

Background Asian medical students and doctors receive lower scores on average than their
white counterparts in examinations in the UK and internationally (a phenomenon known as …

Background Objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) are commonly used to
assess the clinical skills of health professional students. Examiner judgement is one …

The increasing use of direct observation tools to assess routine performance has resulted in
the growing reliance on assessor-based judgements in the workplace. However, we have a …

Background While prior research has focused on the validity of quantitative ratings
generated by direct observation tools, much less is known about the written comments …