Can students' reasons for choosing set answers to ethical vignettes be reliably rated? Development and testing of a method

Medical Teacher

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 713-718

  Goldie, John ^a   Schwartz, Lisa ^a   McConnachie, Alex ^a   Jolly, Brian ^a   Morrison, Jillian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; METHODOLOGY; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; VARIANCE;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; ETHICAL ANALYSIS; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 12344258822     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421590400016399     Document Type: Article

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