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Open AccessUsing video-based examiner score comparison and adjustment (VESCA) to compare the influence of examiners at different sites in a distributed objective structured clinical exam (OSCE)
Ensuring equivalence of examiners’ judgements within distributed objective structured clinical exams (OSCEs) is key to both fairness and validity but is hampered by lack of cross-over in the performances which...
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Open AccessDetermining the influence of different linking patterns on the stability of students’ score adjustments produced using Video-based Examiner Score Comparison and Adjustment (VESCA)
Ensuring equivalence of examiners’ judgements across different groups of examiners is a priority for large scale performance assessments in clinical education, both to enhance fairness and reassure the public....
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Open AccessThe mental workload of conducting research in assessor cognition
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Open AccessPerils, pitfalls and potential for the use of reporting guidelines in experimental research in medical education
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Comparatively salient: examining the influence of preceding performances on assessors’ focus and interpretations in written assessment comments
Recent literature places more emphasis on assessment comments rather than relying solely on scores. Both are variable, however, emanating from assessment judgements. One established source of variability is “c...
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Seeing the same thing differently
Assessors’ scores in performance assessments are known to be highly variable. Attempted improvements through training or rating format have achieved minimal gains. The mechanisms that contribute to variability...