Practical guide to medical student assessment / Zubair Amin, Chong Yap Seng, Khoo Hoon Eng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amin, Zubair.

Contributor:

Chong, Yap Seng.

Khoo, Hoon Eng.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical education.

Medical students--Rating of.

Medical students.

Medicine--Study and teaching.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

xxi, 106 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

section I. Principles and purpose of assessment. ch. 1. Assessment in medical education: an overview. ch. 2. Key concepts in assessment. ch. 3. Special issues in assessment in clinical medicine. ch. 4. Standard setting. ch. 5. A model for assessment

section 2. Assessment of "knows" and "knows how". ch. 6. Oral examination/viva. ch. 7. Long Essay Questions (LEQ). ch. 8. Short Answer Questions (SAQ). ch. 9. Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ). ch. 10. Extended Matching Items (EMI). ch. 11. Key Features Test (KF)

section 3. Assessment of "shows how". ch. 12. Long case. ch. 13. Short case. ch. 14. Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)

section 4. Assessment of "does". ch. 15. Mini Clinical Evaluation Exercise (Mini-CEX). ch. 16. Direct Observation of Procedural Skills (DOPS). ch. 17. Clinical Work Sampling (CWS). ch. 18. Checklist. ch. 19. 360-degree evaluation. ch. 20. Logbook. ch. 21. Portfolio.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611924867

9789814477994

9814477990

9781281924865

1281924865

9789812773586

9812773584

OCLC:

820942695