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Physical Controls on Spatial Variability in Decomposition of Organic Matter in Lake Kinneret, Israel
High resolution chemical data collected during summer 2003 indicate that the lower water mass (LWM) of the thermally stratified Lake Kinneret (LK) can be subdivided into three layers: a benthic boundary layer ...
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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...
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Open AccessA randomised trial of the influence of racial stereotype bias on examiners’ scores, feedback and recollections in undergraduate clinical exams
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 “differential attainment”). This could be d...
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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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Open AccessPerils, pitfalls and potential for the use of reporting guidelines in experimental research in medical education
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Open AccessThe mental workload of conducting research in assessor cognition
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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 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...
