Integrity situational judgement test for medical school selection: judging 'what to do' versus 'what not to do'.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Despite their widespread use in medical school selection, there remains a lack of clarity on exactly what situational judgement tests (SJTs) measure.

Objectives

We aimed to develop an SJT that measures integrity by combining critical incident interviews (inductive approach) with an innovative deductive approach. The deductive approach guided the development of the SJT according to two established theoretical models, of which one was positively related to integrity (honesty-humility [HH]) and one was negatively related to integrity (cognitive distortions [CD]). The Integrity SJT covered desirable (HH-based) and undesirable (CD-based) response options. We examined the convergent and discriminant validity of the Integrity SJT and compared the validity of the HH-based an

SUBMITTER: de Leng WE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5901405 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature