Assessment in Health Professions Education

Rachel Yudkowsky, MD, MHPE, is Professor and Interim Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Medical Education in the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, and past Director of the UIC Dr. Allan L. and Mary L. Graham Clinical Performance Center. Yoon Soo Park, PhD, is Associate Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Medical Education, and Director of Research, Office of Educational Affairs in the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. Steven M. Downing, PhD, is Associate Professor, emeritus, in the Department of Medical Education in the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.

Foreword


Georges Bordage


Preface


Rachel Yudkowsky, Yoon Soo Park, and Steven M Downing





Part 1: Fundamentals of Assessment


1. Introduction to Assessment in the Health Professions


Rachel Yudkowsky, Yoon Soo Park, and Steven M Downing


2. Validity and Its Threats


Matthew Lineberry


3. Reliability


Yoon Soo Park


4. Generalizability Theory


Clarence D. Kreiter, Nikki L. Bibler Zaidi and Yoon Soo Park


5. Statistics of Testing


Steven M Downing, Dorthea Juul, and Yoon Soo Park


6. Standard Setting


Rachel Yudkowsky, Steven M Downing, and Ara Tekian





Part 2: Assessment Methods


7. Written Tests


Miguel Paniagua, Kimberly A. Swygert, and Steven M. Downing


8. Oral Examinations


Dorthea Juul, Rachel Yudkowsky, and Ara Tekian


9. Performance Tests


Rachel Yudkowsky


10. Workplace-Based Assessment


Mary E McBride, Mark D Adler, and William C McGaghie


11. Narrative assessment


Nancy Dudek and David Cook


12. Assessment Portfolios


Daniel J Schumacher, Ara Tekian, and Rachel Yudkowsky





Part 3: Special topics


13. Key Features Approach


Georges Bordage and Gordon Page


14. Simulations in Assessment


Luke A Devine, William C McGaghie, and Barry Issenberg


15. Situational Judgment Tests


Harold Reiter and Christopher Roberts


16. Programmatic Assessment


Cees van der Vleuten, Sylvia Heeneman, and Suzanne Schut


17. Assessment Affecting Learning


Matthew Lineberry


18. Assessment in Mastery Learning Settings


Matthew Lineberry, et al.


19. Item Response Theory


Yoon Soo Park


20. Engaging with your Statistician


Alan Schwartz and Yoon Soo Park