In honour of the ICE blog’s 5-year anniversary, we continue our look back at some of our most popular and influential series. This week we continue with “Assessment.” Our first piece on “Assessment” was posted […]
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Category: Assessment
Learning-Performance Distinction: Implications for Assessment and CBME
By Dilshan Pieris (@DilshanPieris_) Competency-based medical education (CBME) is an outcomes-based approach to post-graduate training that is rapidly rising to prominence in the medical education community (1). In fact, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons […]
Understanding the interaction of the ‘truths’ of validity in #MedEd studies [Part 2]
Read part one here By Damian Roland (@Damian_Roland) The validity on a clinical study is determined by a number of key well defined factors. While it is possible to have varying qualities of validity there […]
Understanding the interaction of the ‘truths’ of validity in #MedEd studies [Part 1]
By Damian Roland (@Damian_Roland) Validity is a commonly used term in research and education. However it is often misunderstood [1] and there is no one universal definition. Messick 1989 [2] described validity as the “degree […]
The (Disputed) Top Assessment Papers in #meded via #ICRE2015
Today’s post serves as partial show notes for a workshop conducted at the 2015 International Conference on Residency Education by Eric Holmboe and me. The (Disputed) Top Assessment Papers, is a regular session that we have conducted for […]