How to design a useful test: the principles of assessment

Lambertus Schuwirth; Cees Van der Vleuten

doi:10.1002/9781444320282.ch14

How to design a useful test: the principles of assessment

Lambertus Schuwirth, Cees Van der Vleuten

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	Understanding Medical Education
Subtitle of host publication	Evidence, Theory and Practice
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Pages	195-207
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781444320282
ISBN (Print)	9781405196802
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444320282.ch14
Publication status	Published - 28 Jun 2010

Keywords

Classical test theory (CTT) - CTT working best with multiple-choice tests, answering identical questions
Content validity or direct validity
Designing a useful test - principles of assessment
Good assessment, no single method - testing whole of medical competence and performance
Mini-CEX, generic form with rating scales - examiner scoring a patient encounter
Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) and simulated patient (SP)-based examinations
Popular assessment instruments
Rasch modelling (RM) and item-response theory (IRT)
Reliability of method - to reproducibility of its results
Reliability, central concept in test theory - similar results with different candidates

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