A Comparison of Second- and Fourth-Year Medical Students on a Standardized-Patient Examination of Clinical Competence: A Construct Validity Study.

Autor/inn/en	Barnhart, Amber J.; und weitere
Titel	A Comparison of Second- and Fourth-Year Medical Students on a Standardized-Patient Examination of Clinical Competence: A Construct Validity Study.
Quelle	(1991), (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Clinical Diagnosis; Comparative Analysis; Competence; Construct Validity; Effect Size; Evaluation Methods; Graduate Medical Education; Higher Education; Medical Evaluation; Medical Students; Patients; Test Validity + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kompetenz; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Patient; Testvalidität
Abstract	The construct validity of the standardized-patient (SP) examination used at Southern Illinois University (Springfield) School of Medicine was assessed by comparing 66 second-year and 70 fourth-year medical students on 5 SP cases. The results show sizable differences between the groups. The usefulness of passing rates the effect-size measures as a means of enhancing the typically weak evidence for validity provided by group-differences studies of construct validity is demonstrated. Results obtained through these approaches show that, as would be expected, the clerkships are having a considerable effect on clinical competence and that the examination is sensitive, as a valid measure of clinical competence should be, to these changes in the clinical-competence construct. A table summarizes passing rates and group means. (Author/SLD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC