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Assessment of progress tests.

Jane McHarg1, Paul Bradley, Suzanne Chamberlain

  • 1Peninsula Medical School, St. Luke's Campus, Heavitree Road, Exeter EX1 2LU, UK. jane.mcharg@pms.ac.uk

Medical Education
|February 1, 2005
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Progress testing in medical education involves regular assessments to monitor student learning. Best practices favor norm-referenced, negatively marked, discontinuous scales, with recent results weighted for accurate progress evaluation.

Area of Science:

  • Medical Education
  • Assessment Methods
  • Longitudinal Evaluation

Background:

  • Progress testing is a longitudinal assessment sampling medical students' knowledge domain.
  • It enables monitoring of student progress throughout the undergraduate program.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review methods for assessing progress test results.
  • To provide recommendations on best practices for progress testing.

Main Methods:

  • Review of assessment methods for progress tests.
  • Analysis of grading scales, marking schemes, and weighting.
  • Mathematical modeling for grade boundary setting.

Main Results:

  • Norm referencing is preferred over criterion referencing.

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  • Negative marking is favored over number-right marking.
  • Discontinuous grading scales are recommended over continuous ones.

    • Conclusions:

    • Weighting recent results is advised, but earlier grades should retain some influence.
    • Grade boundaries should align with remediation and progression policies.