Practical guide to medical student assessment

✍ Scribed by Amin, Zubair; Khoo, Hoon Eng; Chong, Yap Seng

• Publisher: World Scientific
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 130
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This practical guide provides a simple, useful reference to commonly raised questions about medical student assessment. The first part of the book provides succinct information on the general aspects of assessment such as purpose and principles of assessment; technical terms such as validity, reliability, and utility of assessment instruments; and how to choose assessment instruments for a given purpose. Individual assessment instruments are treated in the second part of the guide. The authors focus on about 20 selected assessment instruments currently in use or promising new instruments that are likely to get increased acceptance in future. For each instrument a general description is given, followed by discussion on its uses, limitations, psychometric characteristics, and recommendations for medical teachers. The reference section contains highly selective and well-researched resources, annotated and classified according to their usefulness. Many of these resources are available free on the Internet

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover --
Contents --
Foreword --
Acknowledgement --
About the Authors --
About this Guide --
Disclaimer --
Section 1 Principles and Purpose of Assessment --
Chapter 1 Assessment in Medical Education: An Overview --
Chapter 2 Key Concepts in Assessment --
Chapter 3 Special Issues in Assessment in Clinical Medicine --
Chapter 4 Standard Setting --
Chapter 5 A Model for Assessment --
Section 2 Assessment of "Knows" and "Knows How" --
Chapter 6 Oral Examination/Viva --
Chapter 7 Long Essay Questions (LEQ) --
Chapter 8 Short Answer Questions (SAQ) --
Chapter 9 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) --
Chapter 10 Extended Matching Items (EMI) --
Chapter 11 Key Features Test (KF) --
Section 3 Assessment of "Shows How" --
Chapter 12 Long Case --
Chapter 13 Short Case --
Chapter 14 Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) --
Section 4 Assessment of "Does" --
Chapter 15 Mini Clinical Evaluation Exercise (Mini-CEX) --
Chapter 16 Direct Observation of Procedural Skills (DOPS) --
Chapter 17 Clinical Work Sampling (CWS) --
Chapter 18 Checklist --
Chapter 19 360-Degree Evaluation --
Chapter 20 Logbook --
Chapter 21 Portfolio --
Appendix A Summary of Recommendations --
Appendix B Annotated References and Further Reading --
Index.