Good questions, good answers: Construct alignment improves the performance of workplace-based assessment scales

Medical Education

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 560-569

  Crossley, Jim ^a   Johnson, Gavin ^b   Booth, Joe ^c   Wade, Winnie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; WORKPLACE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 79955979801     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2010.03913.x     Document Type: Article

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