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Roberts, William L.; Boulet, John; Sandella, Jeanne – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
When the safety of the public is at stake, it is particularly relevant for licensing and credentialing exam agencies to use defensible standard setting methods to categorize candidates into competence categories (e.g., pass/fail). The aim of this study was to gather evidence to support change to the Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing-USA…
Descriptors: Standard Setting, Comparative Analysis, Clinical Experience, Skill Analysis
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Shulruf, Boaz; Booth, Roger; Baker, Heather; Bagg, Warwick; Barrow, Mark – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2017
Decisions about progress through an academic programme are made by Boards of Examiners, on the basis of students' course assessments. For most students such pass/fail grading decisions are straightforward. However, for those students whose results are borderline (either at a pass/fail boundary or boundaries between grades) the exercise of some…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Decision Making, Student Promotion, Pass Fail Grading