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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Assessment Science

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  • Assessing clinical competence is cognitively demanding for raters.
  • Unintentional cognitive burdens can limit the quality of assessment judgments.
  • This study investigates how rating multiple competencies affects judgment accuracy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the effect of rating multiple dimensions on assessment quality indicators.
  • To explore rater cognitive strategies when evaluating multiple competencies simultaneously.
  • Hypothesized that increased dimensions would decrease interrater reliability.

Main Methods:

  • Faculty examiners rated prerecorded clinical performances.
  • A 2 (number of dimensions) x 2 (distracting task) x 3 (number of videos) factorial design was used.
  • Participants rated either 2 or 7 dimensions; post-task interviews explored strategies.

Main Results:

  • The 2-dimension (2D) group showed higher interrater reliability (G = .56) than the 7-dimension (7D) group (G = .42).
  • Raters in the 2D group identified more relevant behaviors for procedural skill and history gathering.
  • Post-task interviews revealed significant cognitive load and varied strategies to reduce it.

Conclusions:

  • Increased intrinsic rating demands lead to a decline in the quality of assessment indicators.
  • Rater strategies for managing multiple dimensions are idiosyncratic and may compromise judgment comparability.
  • Simplifying rating tasks may improve the reliability and validity of clinical competence assessments.