Borderline grades in high stakes clinical examinations: resolving examiner uncertainty
Abstract Background Objective Structured Clinical Exams are used to increase reliability and validity, yet they only achieve a modest level of reliability. This low reliability is due in part to examiner variance which is greater than the variance of students. This variance often represents indecisi...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-11-01
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Series: | BMC Medical Education |
Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12909-018-1382-0 |