TY - JOUR
T1 - The assessment of professional competence: building blocks for theory development
AU - Van der Vleuten, Cees
AU - Schuwirth, Lambertus
AU - Scheele, Fedde
AU - Driessen, Erik
AU - Hodges, Brian
PY - 2010/12
Y1 - 2010/12
N2 - This article presents lessons learnt from experiences with assessment of professional competence. Based on Miller's pyramid, a distinction is made between established assessment technology for assessing 'knows', 'knowing how' and 'showing how' and more recent developments in the assessment of (clinical) performance at the 'does' level. Some general lessons are derived from research of and experiences with the established assessment technology. Here, many paradoxes are revealed and empirical outcomes are often counterintuitive. Instruments for assessing the 'does' level are classified and described, and additional general lessons for this area of performance assessment are derived. These lessons can also be read as general principles of assessment (programmes) and may provide theoretical building blocks to underpin appropriate and state-of-the-art assessment practices.
AB - This article presents lessons learnt from experiences with assessment of professional competence. Based on Miller's pyramid, a distinction is made between established assessment technology for assessing 'knows', 'knowing how' and 'showing how' and more recent developments in the assessment of (clinical) performance at the 'does' level. Some general lessons are derived from research of and experiences with the established assessment technology. Here, many paradoxes are revealed and empirical outcomes are often counterintuitive. Instruments for assessing the 'does' level are classified and described, and additional general lessons for this area of performance assessment are derived. These lessons can also be read as general principles of assessment (programmes) and may provide theoretical building blocks to underpin appropriate and state-of-the-art assessment practices.
KW - assessment
KW - assessment of clinical performance
KW - principles of assessment (programmes)
KW - professional competence
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77957753625&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2010.04.001
DO - 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2010.04.001
M3 - Article
VL - 24
SP - 703
EP - 719
JO - Best Practice and Research in Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology
JF - Best Practice and Research in Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology
SN - 1521-6934
IS - 6
ER -