Assessment in the post-psychometric era: Learning to love the subjective and collective

Medical Teacher

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 564-568

  Hodges, Brian ^a  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STANDARD; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84880059221     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2013.789134     Document Type: Article

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