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

A Fundamental Truth: “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.”

Competence vs Excellence

In aiming for competency, “The aim to 'do better' may be lost”

end point assessment –> development {consider Bloom's Taxonomy ?}

1. Novice to expert
2. Formative vs Summative (not necessarily dichotomous) ◦
   1. Limitations of summative approach - narrow
   2. Faculty do both SBS –> different power relations

1. Validity and Reliability ◦
   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: http://www.howardisms.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/output_1526060205.htm