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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Main Authors: Boaz Shulruf, Barbara-Ann Adelstein, Arvin Damodaran, Peter Harris, Sean Kennedy, Anthony O’Sullivan, Silas Taylor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-11-01
Series:BMC Medical Education
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12909-018-1382-0