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50 Years of ERIC
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Moonen-van Loon, J. M. W.; Overeem, K.; Donkers, H. H. L. M.; van der Vleuten, C. P. M.; Driessen, E. W. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2013
In recent years, postgraduate assessment programmes around the world have embraced workplace-based assessment (WBA) and its related tools. Despite their widespread use, results of studies on the validity and reliability of these tools have been variable. Although in many countries decisions about residents' continuation of training and…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Graduate Medical Education, Generalizability Theory
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McGill, D. A.; van der Vleuten, C. P. M.; Clarke, M. J. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2013
Supervisor assessments are critical for both formative and summative assessment in the workplace. Supervisor ratings remain an important source of such assessment in many educational jurisdictions even though there is ambiguity about their validity and reliability. The aims of this evaluation is to explore the: (1) construct validity of ward-based…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Reliability, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation
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van der Zwet, J.; Zwietering, P. J.; Teunissen, P. W.; van der Vleuten, C. P. M.; Scherpbier, A. J. J. A. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2011
Workplace learning in undergraduate medical education has predominantly been studied from a cognitive perspective, despite its complex contextual characteristics, which influence medical students' learning experiences in such a way that explanation in terms of knowledge, skills, attitudes and single determinants of instructiveness is unlikely to…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Learning Theories, Medical Education, Medical Students
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McGill, D. A.; van der Vleuten, C. P. M.; Clarke, M. J. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2011
Even though rater-based judgements of clinical competence are widely used, they are context sensitive and vary between individuals and institutions. To deal adequately with rater-judgement unreliability, evaluating the reliability of workplace rater-based assessments in the local context is essential. Using such an approach, the primary intention…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Certification, Communication Skills, Trainees
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Pelgrim, E. A. M.; Kramer, A. W. M.; Mokkink, H. G. A.; van den Elsen, L.; Grol, R. P. T. M.; van der Vleuten, C. P. M. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2011
We reviewed the literature on instruments for work-based assessment in single clinical encounters, such as the mini-clinical evaluation exercise (mini-CEX), and examined differences between these instruments in characteristics and feasibility, reliability, validity and educational effect. A PubMed search of the literature published before 8…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Reliability, Validity, Formative Evaluation
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Teunissen, P. W.; Stapel, D. A.; Scheele, F.; Scherpbier, A. J. J. A.; Boor, K.; van Diemen-Steenvoorde, J. A. A. M.; van der Vleuten, C. P. M. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2009
Different lines of research have suggested that context is important in acting and learning in the clinical workplace. It is not clear how contextual information influences residents' constructions of the situations in which they participate. The category accessibility paradigm from social psychology appears to offer an interesting perspective for…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Clinical Experience, Medical Evaluation, Medical Students
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Burch, V. C.; Norman, G. R.; Schmidt, H. G.; van der Vleuten, C. P. M. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2008
High stakes postgraduate specialist certification examinations have considerable implications for the future careers of examinees. Medical colleges and professional boards have a social and professional responsibility to ensure their fitness for purpose. To date there is a paucity of published data about the reliability of specialist certification…
Descriptors: Generalizability Theory, Physicians, Foreign Countries, Specialists
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Kramer, A. W. M.; Zuithoff, P.; Jansen, J. J. M.; Tan, L. H. C.; Grol, R. P. T. M.; van der Vleuten, C. P. M. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2007
Objective: To examine the increase in self-perceived clinical competence during a three-year postgraduate training in general practice and to explore the relation between the growth of self-perceived competence and several background variables. Design: Cohort, 1995-1998. Setting: Three-year Postgraduate Training for General practice in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Clinical Experience, Trainees, Self Concept