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Assessing veterinary students using in-training evaluation scores: what is being assessed?
1School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
The Veterinary Record
|April 26, 2019
Summary
Veterinary student evaluations reveal a complex performance structure. Professional attitude and knowledge significantly influence overall grades, demonstrating the validity of these in-training assessments.
Area of Science:
- Veterinary Education
- Medical Assessment
- Psychometrics
Background:
- In-training evaluations are crucial for veterinary student assessment during clinical training.
- Existing evaluations face criticism for lacking performance dimension discrimination.
Purpose of the Study:
- To analyze the dimensions assessed by veterinary in-training evaluations.
- To determine the influence of these dimensions on the overall awarded score.
Main Methods:
- Common factor analysis and ordinal logistic regression were applied.
- A retrospective sample of 3466 evaluations from 197 final-year veterinary students was analyzed.
Main Results:
- A higher-order dimensional structure with one overarching factor and 2-4 subfactors was identified.
- All dimensions significantly related to overall grade; professional attitude had the strongest effect (β=2.71, P=0.0004).
- Placement significantly affected overall grade (P=0.021), while supervisor status and GPA did not.
Conclusions:
- Veterinary in-training evaluation scores effectively represent the complexity of supervisor judgment.
- The identified dimensional structure aligns with the multifaceted construct of competency in veterinary medicine.
Keywords:
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