Test security in standardized-patient examinations
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Setting defensible performance standards on OSCEs and standardized patient examinations.
Recently, standardized patient assessments and objective structured clinical examinations have been used for high-stakes certification and licensure decisions. In these testing situations, it is important that the assessments are standardized, the scores are accurate and reliable, and the resulting decisions regarding competence ar equitable and defensible. For the decisions to be valid, justif...
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عنوان ژورنال: Academic Medicine
سال: 1992
ISSN: 1040-2446
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199210000-00022