BACKGROUND To reduce inter-rater variability in evaluations and the demand on physician time, standardized patients (SP) are being used as examiners in OSCEs. There is concern that SP have insufficient training to provide valid evaluation of student competence and/or provide feedback on clinical skills. It is also unknown if SP ratings predict student competence in other areas. The objectives o...

BACKGROUND The postgraduate training program in psychiatry in Saudi Arabia, which was established in 1997, is a 4-year residency program. Written exams comprising of multiple choice questions (MCQs) are used as a summative assessment of residents in order to determine their eligibility for promotion from one year to the next. Test blueprints are not used in preparing examinations. OBJECTIVE T...

background: visualattention is known as acritical base for learning.thepurpose of the present study was to design, develop and evaluate the test-retest and internal consistency reliability as well as face, content and convergent validity of thecomputer- based selective visual attention test (sevat) for healthy first-grade school children.   methods :in thefirst phase of this study,the computer-...

Formative assessments are systematically designed instructional interventions to assess and provide feedback on students' strengths and weaknesses in the course of teaching and learning. Despite their known benefits to student attitudes and learning, medical school curricula have been slow to integrate such assessments into the curriculum. This study investigates how performance on two differen...

The SIETTE collaborative environment allows students to take tests together in small groups. Individuals can communicate and hold discussions to solve test questions. This paper describes the summative evaluation of the SIETTE collaborative environment and the relationship between the collaboration and the actual improvement which occurs in the student knowledge level. We conclude that under ce...

background: academic tests are valuable tools for evaluating students’ knowledge and capabilities. this study aimed to assess the content validity offinal examinations at mashhad dental school. the practical purpose of this study was to enhance the quality of written examinations in this school. methods: the present descriptive, cross-sectional study aimed to determine the content validity of f...