Standard setting for undergraduate examinations: a beginners practical guide
Date: 1 day event - 27 Sep 2006
This workshop is now closed
Aims
To provide an introduction to the principles underlying the different contemporary best practice methods for standard setting.
To provide practical guidance for participants on how to initiate standard setting in their own institutions.
Activities
The workshop will include a variety of presentations, experiential group work and discussions on each of the main standard setting methods.
Proposed outcomes
Participants will:
? gain an understanding of the fundamental principles of standard setting
? develop experiential working knowledge of 4 contemporary standard setting methods
? receive support in introducing standard setting in their own institutions
Facilitators & Speakers
- Trudie Roberts - Co-facilitator
Facilitator background
Kathy Boursicot has run standard setting workshops at Barts and the London School of Medicine for 6 years for summative (Final MBBS) and formative assessments. She has pioneered the introduction of standard setting, for both written and performance-based examinations, in all years of the medical school. She has conducted research comparing the effects of different standard setting methods on the outcomes of examinations, as well as analysing the effects of using the same standard setting method in different medical schools.
As Associate Dean for Assessment Clinical School in Cambridge, Kathy has introduced a comprehensive new assessment system, including the use of criterion-referenced standard setting methods for all levels of testing.
As a member of the PLAB OSCE Panel for 6 years and the PLAB Review group in the last year, she has participated in the development of criterion referenced standard setting methods both the Part 1 and Part of the PLAB.
Trudie Roberts has introduced the use of criterion-referenced standard setting methods for summative assessment in all years at Leeds University Medical School. As part of this strategy, she has conducted several standard setting workshops for the academic staff at Leeds over the past 3 years. She has been a member of the Royal College of Physicians? standard setting group for the MRCP for the last 3 years, developing criterion referenced standard setting methods for the Part 1 MRCP. She has collaborated with Kathy on an LTSN-01 funded research project investigating the use of the Angoff method across five medical schools, completed in 2003.
Both facilitators have jointly run workshops for the medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine subject centre (formerly LTSN-01) previously, in 2003 (OSCEs for assessment of clinical competence) and 2004 (examiner training for OSCEs); these have been highly evaluated by the participants.
Target audience
This workshop is for people new to standard setting, who want an introduction to the principles underlying the different contemporary best practice methods.
Venue & Location
Barts and the London Hospital
Room G05 (ground floor) Old Anatomy Building Barts and the London, Queen Mary University of London Charterhouse Square LondonResources
* This workshop is co-hosted, co-hosted events are facilitated and delivered jointly by MEDEV and another institution(s).
Workshop closed
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