Student peer assessment in evidence-based medicine (EBM) searching skills training: an experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Student peer assessment (SPA) has been used intermittently in medical education for more than four decades, particularly in connection with skills training. SPA generally has not been rigorously tested, so medical educators have limited evidence about SPA effectiveness.

Methods

Experimental design

Seventy-one first-year medical students were stratified by previous test scores into problem-based learning tutorial groups, and then these assigned groups were randomized further into intervention and control groups. All students received evidence-based medicine (EBM) training. Only the intervention group members received SPA training, practice with assessment rubrics, and then application of anonymous SPA to assignments submitted by other members of the interve

SUBMITTER: Eldredge JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3794677 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature