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Development, administration, and validity evidence of a subspecialty preparatory test toward licensure: a pilot study
| العنوان: | Development, administration, and validity evidence of a subspecialty preparatory test toward licensure: a pilot study |
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| المؤلفون: | John Johnson, Alan Schwartz, Matthew Lineberry, Faisal Rehman, Yoon Soo Park |
| المصدر: | BMC Medical Education, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2018) |
| بيانات النشر: | BMC, 2018. |
| سنة النشر: | 2018 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Special aspects of education LCC:Medicine |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Assessment, Validity evidence, Messick’s framework, Constructed-response item, Formative test, Questionnaire, Special aspects of education, LC8-6691, Medicine |
| الوصف: | Abstract Background Trainees in medical subspecialties lack validated assessment scores that can be used to prepare for their licensing examination. This paper presents the development, administration, and validity evidence of a constructed-response preparatory test (CRPT) administered to meet the needs of nephrology trainees. Methods Learning objectives from the licensing examination were used to develop a test blueprint for the preparatory test. Messick’s unified validity framework was used to gather validity evidence for content, response process, internal structure, relations to other variables, and consequences. Questionnaires were used to gather data on the trainees’ perception of examination preparedness, item clarity, and curriculum adequacy. Results There were 10 trainees and 5 faculty volunteers who took the test. The majority of trainees passed the constructed-response preparatory test. However, many scored poorly on items assessing renal pathology and physiology knowledge. We gathered the following five sources of validity evidence: (1) Content: CRPT mapped to the licensing examination blueprint, with items demonstrating clarity and range of difficulty; (2) Response process: moderate rater agreement (intraclass correlation = .58); (3) Internal structure: sufficient reliability based on generalizability theory (G-coefficient = .76 and Φ-coefficient = .53); (4) Relations to other variables: CRPT scores reflected years of exposure in nephrology and clinical practice; (5) Consequences: post-assessment survey revealed that none of the test takers felt “poorly prepared” for the upcoming summative examination and that their studying would increase in duration and be adapted in terms of content focus. Conclusions Preparatory tests using constructed response items mapped to licensure examination blueprint can be developed and used at local program settings to help prepare learners for subspecialty licensure examinations. The CRPT and questionnaire data identified shortcomings of the nephrology training program curriculum. Following the preparatory test, trainees expressed an improved sense of preparedness for their licensing examination. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1472-6920 |
| Relation: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12909-018-1294-z; https://doaj.org/toc/1472-6920 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12909-018-1294-z |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/5fa6000c42f14572a8dc4bb36ec98813 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.5fa6000c42f14572a8dc4bb36ec98813 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
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| DOI: | 10.1186/s12909-018-1294-z |