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Direct linkShin, Jinnie; Guo, Qi; Morin, Maxim – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2023
With the increased restrictions on physical distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, remote proctoring has emerged as an alternative to traditional onsite proctoring to ensure the continuity of essential assessments, such as computer-based medical licensing exams. Recent literature has highlighted the significant impact of different proctoring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Stakes Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Licensing Examinations (Professions)
Roxanne Buria – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative study was to explore the impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on medical education by comparing USMLE Step 1 first attempt pass rates of examinees from US/Canadian schools in Doctor of Medicine (MD) programs from 2020-2022 to prior years' pass first attempt pass rates (2017-2019). Additionally, the effectiveness of the…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Learning Modalities, Anatomy, Comparative Analysis
S. Chahine; I. Bartman; K. Kulasegaram; D. Archibald; P. Wang; C. Wilson; B. Ross; E. Cameron; J. Hogenbirk; C. Barber; R. Burgess; E. Katsoulas; C. Touchie; L. Grierson – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2024
This paper reports the findings of a Canada based multi-institutional study designed to investigate the relationships between admissions criteria, in-program assessments, and performance on licensing exams. The study's objective is to provide valuable insights for improving educational practices across different institutions. Data were gathered…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Foreign Countries, Admission Criteria, Student Evaluation
Download full textFiona A. E. McQuarrie – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2024
This report examines the types of professional regulation in BC that interact with institutions and programs in the BC Transfer System, and assesses the extent to which professional regulation affects transfer activity within the BC Transfer System. While the potential exists for conflicts between program accreditation or practitioner licensing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Education, Skilled Occupations, Standards
Morin, Maxim; Alves, Cecilia; De Champlain, André – Journal of Applied Testing Technology, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted assessment models that were commonplace in the testing industry for decades. As a response to this disturbance, remote proctoring has emerged as a promising and potentially sound alternative to offer examinations, while adhering to public health authority guidelines. However, validity evidence in support of…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Observation, High Stakes Tests, Medical Education
Kajander, Ann; Holm, Jennifer – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2022
In 2019, the Ontario Ministry of Education announced a mandatory mathematics examination for all newly licensed teachers in the province. The following winter, after a brief pilot and a few months during COVID of testing, a court case declared the mathematics examination unconstitutional, and it has been paused since January 2021. This paper…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Academic Standards, Minimum Competencies, Minimum Competency Testing
Fursenko, Tetiana – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2018
The article sets out peculiar features of attaining the CERA credential from the Canadian Institute of Actuaries. The analysis results show that there are scores of ways available to candidates perusing the aim of becoming a CERA. There have been singled out the main models following which it is possible to get the designation which is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Certification, Insurance Occupations, Licensing Examinations (Professions)
Grad, Roland; Leger, Daniel; Kaczorowski, Janusz; Schuster, Tibor; Adler, Samara; Aman, Marya; Archibald, Douglas; Beaulieu, Marie-Claude; Chmelicek, John; Cornelissen, Evelyn; Delleman, Bethany; Hadj-Mimoune, Sonia; Horvey, Samantha; Macaluso, Steven; Mintsioulis, Stephen; Murdoch, Stuart; Ng, Brian; Papineau, Alain; Rangwala, Sohil; Rousseau, Mathieu; Rudkin, Teresa; Schabort, Inge; Schultz, Karen; Snow, Pamela; Wong, Eric; Wu, Pearson; Brailovsky, Carlos – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2021
Spaced education is a learning strategy to improve knowledge acquisition and retention. To date, no robust evidence exists to support the utility of spaced education in the Family Medicine residency. We aimed to test whether alerts to encourage spaced education can improve clinical knowledge as measured by scores on the Canadian Family Medicine…
Descriptors: Graduate Medical Education, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Family Practice (Medicine)
Stewart, Gail; Strachan, Andrea – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
Since its implementation in 2004, the Canadian English Language Benchmark Assessment for Nurses (CELBAN) has been accepted as evidence of language ability for licensure of internationally educated nurses (IENs) in Canada. This article focuses on the complexities of sustaining an occupation-specific assessment over time. The authors reference the…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English for Special Purposes, Benchmarking, Nurses
Frank, Eva M.; O'Connor, Siobhán; Bergeron, Glen; Gardner, Greg – Athletic Training Education Journal, 2019
Context: The globalization of athletic training and therapy is advancing and professionals have more opportunities to transition to international working environments. Objective: To compare the American, Canadian, and Irish athletic training and therapy education, accreditation, and certification processes. Background: The Mutual Recognition…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Therapy, Global Approach, International Cooperation
Baldwin, Stefanie; Cheng, Liying – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2020
This qualitative validation study examines sixteen Internationally Educated Nurses' (IENs') accounts of the Canadian English Language Benchmark Assessment for Nurses (CELBAN) at two testing centres (Toronto and Hamilton). This study adopts both focus groups and one-on-one interviews to investigate the inferences drawn from the test, and its…
Descriptors: Nurses, Nursing Education, Foreign Countries, Licensing Examinations (Professions)
Gierl, Mark J.; Lai, Hollis; Pugh, Debra; Touchie, Claire; Boulais, André-Philippe; De Champlain, André – Applied Measurement in Education, 2016
Item development is a time- and resource-intensive process. Automatic item generation integrates cognitive modeling with computer technology to systematically generate test items. To date, however, items generated using cognitive modeling procedures have received limited use in operational testing situations. As a result, the psychometric…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Item Analysis
Dore, Kelly L.; Reiter, Harold I.; Kreuger, Sharyn; Norman, Geoffrey R. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
Typically, only a minority of applicants to health professional training are invited to interview. However, pre-interview measures of cognitive skills predict for national licensure scores (Gauer et al. in "Med Educ Online" 21 2016) and subsequently licensure scores predict for performance in practice (Tamblyn et al. in "JAMA"…
Descriptors: Interviews, Thinking Skills, Certification, Predictor Variables
Kis, Viktoria; Windisch, Hendrickje Catriona – OECD Publishing, 2018
This paper looks at the importance of mechanisms that give formal recognition to vocational skills acquired through work-based learning and how such mechanisms might be developed. It describes how skill recognition can benefit individuals, employers and society as a whole, and identifies in which contexts skill recognition has the highest…
Descriptors: Job Skills, On the Job Training, Skill Development, Professional Recognition
Tian, Fang; Roy, Marguerite; Streefkerk, Cindy; De Champlain, Andre F.; Anderson, Erin; Cuddihy, Helen – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of using a Competency-based Achievement System (CBAS) (a formative tool) in the practice ready assessment (PRA) of internationally-trained physicians seeking licensure to practice in Canada (summative assessment). The study was a retrospective analysis of over 5,000 FieldNotes completed…
Descriptors: Physicians, Foreign Medical Graduates, Foreign Countries, Performance Based Assessment
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