Establishing the Validity of Test Score Inferences: Performance of 4th-Year U.S. Medical Students on the ECFMG Clinical Skills Assessment

Teaching and Learning in Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 214-220

  Ayers, William R ^a   Boulet, John R ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Clinical Skills Assessment Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APTITUDE TEST; ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APTITUDE TESTS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 0035463531     PISSN: 10401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15328015TLM1304_01     Document Type: Article

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