Introduction Our ability to assess independent trainee performance is a key element of
competency‐based medical education (CBME). In workplace‐based clinical settings …

Purpose Ensuring that examiners in different parallel circuits of objective structured clinical
examinations (OSCEs) judge to the same standard is critical to the chain of validity. Recent …

Background Although averaging across multiple examiners' judgements reduces unwanted
overall score variability in objective structured clinical examinations (OSCE), designs …

Variation in examiner stringency is a recognised problem in many standardised summative
assessments of performance such as the OSCE. The stated strength of the OSCE is that …

Introduction Ensuring equivalence in high-stakes performance exams is important for patient
safety and candidate fairness. We compared inter-school examiner differences within a …

Introduction Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) results could be affected by
low homogeneity of examiners, non-retrospectiveness of test results, and examiner-cohort …

Introduction Objective structured clinical exams (OSCEs) are a cornerstone of assessing the
competence of trainee healthcare professionals, but have been criticised for (1) lacking …

Background Ensuring equivalence of examiners' judgements across different groups of
examiners is a priority for large scale performance assessments in clinical education, both to …

Introduction: Borderline regression (BRM) is considered problematic in small cohort OSCEs
(eg n< 50), with institutions often relying on item-centred standard setting approaches which …

Purpose Ensuring equivalence of examiners' judgements within distributed objective
structured clinical exams (OSCEs) is key to both fairness and validity but is hampered by …