Alphonsus Chong's Personal Wiki

Source: Assessing Learners. Valerie Wass & Julian Archer. in Medical Education: Theory and Practice.

“Assessment drives learning”, BUT “Examinations drive learning too narrowly towards the licensing test. Training towards minimum competency can conflict with the overriding commitment to education and lifelong learning.”

1. consider Fitts and Posner
2. In aiming for competency, “The aim to 'do better' may be lost”
3. end point assessment –> development {consider Bloom's Taxonomy ?}

1. Novice to expert

1. Limitations of summative approach - narrow
2. Faculty do both SBS –> different power relations

1. Validity - has it measured what it is supposed to measure?
2. Typical facets vs 'construct' v
3. Reliability - prerequirement for validity
   1. Different measurements - internal consistency; classical test theory, generalizability theory

See also:

1. http://www.howardisms.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/output_1526060205.htm
2. darzi2001