Workplace-based assessment: raters’ performance theories and constructs

Workplace-based assessment: raters’ performance theories and constructs

Weaknesses in the nature of rater judgments are generally considered to compromise the utility of workplace-based assessment (WBA). In order to gain insight into the underpinnings of rater behaviours, we investigated how raters form impressions of and make judgments on trainee performance. Using theoretical frameworks of social cognition and person perception, we explored raters' implicit perfo...

Workplace-based assessment and the art of performance.

Workplace-based assessment; learner and assessor perspectives

OBJECTIVE To examine the acceptability and educational impact of the workplace-based assessment program for international medical graduates on candidates and assessors. METHOD A grounded theory-based qualitative analysis of the experiences of 17 candidates and eleven assessors using focus groups, interviews, and surveys. RESULTS Both candidates and assessors identified positive opportunitie...

Student perception of workplace-based assessment

BACKGROUND Workplace-based assessment (WPBA) is key to medical education, providing a framework through which the trainee can be assessed and receive feedback in the clinical setting. WPBA was introduced in 2008-2009 to students in year 4 at University College London Medical School (UCLMS). Students raised concerns about the lack of standardisation in grading. As a result, white-space areas wer...

Workplace-based assessment: effects of rater expertise

Traditional psychometric approaches towards assessment tend to focus exclusively on quantitative properties of assessment outcomes. This may limit more meaningful educational approaches towards workplace-based assessment (WBA). Cognition-based models of WBA argue that assessment outcomes are determined by cognitive processes by raters which are very similar to reasoning, judgment and decision m...