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  • Psychometrics
  • Social Skills Assessment

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  • Situational Judgement Tests (SJTs) are widely used in undergraduate medical admissions to assess social skills and predict academic success.
  • Two types of SJTs exist: traditional SJTs measuring general behavior and construct-driven SJTs targeting specific traits.
  • No prior research has directly compared the predictive validity of these SJT types in medical school admissions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate and compare the predictive validity of a traditional SJT (HAM-SJT) and a construct-driven SJT (CD-SJT) for objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) performance in medical students.
  • To determine if the CD-SJT, with its agentic and communal scales, predicts OSCE outcomes in both low-stakes and high-stakes admission scenarios.

Main Methods:

  • The study administered the HAM-SJT and the CD-SJT to two samples of medical students (low-stakes: n=159; high-stakes: n=160) during undergraduate admission.
  • Student performance was evaluated using objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs).
  • Statistical analyses, including correlation and regression, were used to assess the predictive validity of the SJTs, controlling for factors like GPA, science test scores, and gender.

Main Results:

  • A moderate positive correlation (r=0.20, p=0.009) was found between the communal scale of the CD-SJT and OSCE performance with trained patients in the high-stakes sample.
  • The CD-SJT demonstrated incremental predictive value for OSCE performance beyond GPA, science test scores, and gender (ß = 0.18, p=0.020).
  • The HAM-SJT showed a comparable raw correlation (r=0.14) which, after controlling for range restriction, reached r=0.20, similar to the CD-SJT's communal scale.

Conclusions:

  • Construct-driven SJTs, particularly their communal aspects, show promise in predicting clinical performance in high-stakes medical admissions.
  • The findings suggest that SJTs assessing specific constructs may offer valuable insights into a medical student's potential for effective patient interaction.
  • This research provides initial evidence supporting the use of construct-driven SJTs in undergraduate medical admissions for enhanced candidate selection.