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Till, Hettie; Ker, Jean; Myford, Carol; Stirling, Kevin; Mires, Gary – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2015
The authors report final-year ward simulation data from the University of Dundee Medical School. Faculty who designed this assessment intend for the final score to represent an individual senior medical student's level of clinical performance. The results are included in each student's portfolio as one source of evidence of the student's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Simulation, Clinical Experience, Medical Education
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Wijnen-Meijer, M.; Van der Schaaf, M.; Booij, E.; Harendza, S.; Boscardin, C.; Wijngaarden, J. Van; Ten Cate, Th. J. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2013
There is a need for valid methods to assess the readiness for clinical practice of medical graduates. This study evaluates the validity of Utrecht Hamburg Trainee Responsibility for Unfamiliar Situations Test (UHTRUST), an authentic simulation procedure to assess whether medical trainees are ready to be entrusted with unfamiliar clinical tasks…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Trust (Psychology), Medical Students, College Graduates
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Han, Chao – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2016
As a property of test scores, reliability/dependability constitutes an important psychometric consideration, and it underpins the validity of measurement results. A review of interpreter certification performance tests (ICPTs) reveals that (a) although reliability/dependability checking has been recognized as an important concern, its theoretical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scores, English, Chinese
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Meijer, Joost; Sleegers, Peter; Elshout-Mohr, Marianne; van Daalen-Kapteijns, Maartje; Meeus, Wil; Tempelaar, Dirk – Educational Research, 2013
Background: Interest in the role of metacognition has been steadily rising in most forms of education. This study focuses on the construction of a questionnaire for measuring metacognitive knowledge, metacognitive regulation and metacognitive responsiveness among students in higher education and the subsequent process of testing to determine its…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Higher Education, Independent Study, Questionnaires
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Dockett, Sue; Perry, Bob – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2007
Much of the current rhetoric in areas of child and family research and in early childhood education emphasizes the importance of listening to children in research that has a direct impact on them. Despite this, there remain qualms in some research contexts and amongst some researchers about the reliability, validity and generalizability of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Ethics, Research Methodology
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Dolmans, Diana H. J. M.; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1996
Examined the extent to which tutor ratings remained stable in the long term by evaluating 291 ratings of 140 tutors at Maastricht University in the Netherlands between 1992 and 1995. The results indicated that, if the aggregated score and overall judgement are used to interpret the precision of individual scores, four and two occasions,…
Descriptors: Faculty Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Generalizability Theory, Higher Education