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Audit and summative assessment: system development and testing
Author(s) -
Lough J R M,
McKay J,
Murray T S
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1997.tb02570.x
Subject(s) - summative assessment , audit , competence (human resources) , referral , medical education , schedule , medicine , general practice , medical audit , psychology , formative assessment , family medicine , computer science , pedagogy , business , accounting , social psychology , operating system
SUMMARY Registrars in general practice have to submit an audit project as one of four parts of summative assessment. A criterion‐referenced marking schedule has been developed in the West of Scotland, consisting of five independent criteria all of which have to be judged above minimum competence to pass. A system was developed to test the instrument using a marking exercise which calculated the sensitivity and specificity of the assessment process, for different combinations of assessors. One hundred and two registrar audit projects were then assessed by three independent assessors. Ninety‐two (90%) passed and 10 projects (10%) were referred back to the registrar as being below minimum competence. After resubmission six projects (6%) passed, two projects (2%) were still below minimum competence, and two (2%) were not resubmitted. A referral process for assessing the audit projects of general practice registrars has been developed to maximize the opportunity of finding a project below minimum competence.