Conditional reliability of admissions interview ratings: extreme ratings are the most informative
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Conditional reliability of admissions interview ratings: extreme ratings are the most informative.
CONTEXT Admissions interviews are unreliable and have poor predictive validity, yet are the sole measures of non-cognitive skills used by most medical school admissions departments. The low reliability may be due in part to variation in conditional reliability across the rating scale. OBJECTIVES To describe an empirically derived estimate of conditional reliability and use it to improve the p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Education
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0308-0110,1365-2923
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2929.2006.02634.x