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Screening Test Length for Sequential Testing with a Standardized-Patient Examination: A Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Analysis.
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Colliver, Jerry A.; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1992
A study investigated optimal length of screening tests used to sort out medical students needing to take a full-length performance-based standardized-patient test from those not needing it. Receiver operating characteristic analysis determined a good length is one-third the full test, with cutoff just above the mean case pass level. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Medical Education, Patients, Professional Education
Sequential Testing with a Performance-Based Examination Using Standardized Patients.
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Colliver, Jerry A.; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1991
A study assessed the feasibility of sequential testing of medical students using standardized patients. Sequential testing passes students who score well on the first segment of the test thus eliminating additional student-standardized patient encounters. Subjects were six classes of Southern Illinois University students (n=404). Results strongly…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Higher Education, Medical Education, Patients