The psychometric properties of five scoring methods applied to the script concordance test

Academic Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 395-399

  Bland, Andrew C ^a,c   Kreiter, Clarence D ^b   Gordon, Joel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c RenalCare Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SCORING SYSTEM; SCRIPT CONCORDANCE TEST; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 15944428176     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200504000-00019     Document Type: Article

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