Differential effects of two types of formative assessment in predicting performance of first-year medical students

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 155-171

  Krasne, Sally ^a   Wimmers, Paul F ^b   Relan, Anju ^a   Drake, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment testing; Curriculum development evaluation; Educational measurement; On line testing; Student evaluation; Teaching methods; Undergraduate medical education

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; FORECASTING; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FORECASTING; HUMANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33744462058     PISSN: 13824996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10459-005-5290-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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