Evaluating the validity evidence of an OSCE: results from a new medical school.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To prevent the problems of traditional clinical evaluation, the "Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)" was presented by Harden as a more valid and reliable assessment instrument. However, an essential condition to guarantee a high-quality and effective OSCE is the assurance of evidence to support the validity of its scores. This study examines the psychometric properties of OSCE scores, with an emphasis on consequential and internal structure validity evidence.

Methods

Fifty-three first year medical students took part in a summative OSCE at the Lebanese American University-School of Medicine. Evidence to support consequential validity was gathered by using criterion-based standard setting methods. Internal structure validity evidence was gathered by ex

SUBMITTER: Yazbeck Karam V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6302424 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature