Is case-specificity content-specificity? An analysis of data from extended-matching questions (Adv in Health Sci Educ, DOI 10.1007/s10459-009-9169-z);Is case-specificity content-specificity? An analysis of data from extended-matching questions

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-63

  Dory, Valerie ^a   Gagnon, Robert ^b   Charlin, Bernard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assessment; Case specificity; Clinical reasoning; Content specificity; Extended matching items; Generalisability; Pattern recognition; Postgraduate general practice training; Written assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 75749123443     PISSN: 13824996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10459-009-9174-2     Document Type: Erratum

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