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Challenging medical students with an interim assessment: a positive effect on formal examination score in a randomized controlled study

Until now, positive effects of assessment at a medical curriculum level have not been demonstrated. This study was performed to determine whether an interim assessment, taken during a small group work session of an ongoing biomedical course, results in students’ increased performance at the formal c...

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Autores principales: Olde Bekkink, Marleen, Donders, Rogier, van Muijen, Goos N. P., Ruiter, Dirk J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3274674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21442416
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10459-011-9291-6
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author Olde Bekkink, Marleen
Donders, Rogier
van Muijen, Goos N. P.
Ruiter, Dirk J.
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description Until now, positive effects of assessment at a medical curriculum level have not been demonstrated. This study was performed to determine whether an interim assessment, taken during a small group work session of an ongoing biomedical course, results in students’ increased performance at the formal course examination. A randomized controlled trial was set up, with an interim assessment without explicit feedback as intervention. It was performed during a regular biomedical Bachelor course of 4 weeks on General Pathology at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. Participants were 326 medical and 91 biomedical science students divided into three study arms: arm Intervention-1 (I-1) receiving one interim assessment; arm I-2 receiving two interim assessments, and control arm C, receiving no interim assessment. The study arms were stratified for gender and study discipline. The interim assessment consisted of seven multiple-choice questions on tumour pathology. Main outcome measures were overall score of the formal examination (scale 1–10), and the subscore of the questions on tumour pathology (scale 1–10). We found that students who underwent an interim assessment (arm I) had a 0.29-point (scale 1–10) higher score on the formal examination than the control group (p = 0.037). For the questions in the formal examination on tumour pathology the score amounted to 0.47 points higher (p = 0.007), whereas it was 0.17 points higher for the questions on topics related to the previous 3 weeks. No differences in formal examination score were found between arms I-1 and I-2 (p = 0.817). These findings suggest that an interim assessment during a small group work session in a randomized study setting stimulates students to increase their formal examination score.
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spelling pubmed-32746742012-02-21 Challenging medical students with an interim assessment: a positive effect on formal examination score in a randomized controlled study Olde Bekkink, Marleen Donders, Rogier van Muijen, Goos N. P. Ruiter, Dirk J. Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract Article Until now, positive effects of assessment at a medical curriculum level have not been demonstrated. This study was performed to determine whether an interim assessment, taken during a small group work session of an ongoing biomedical course, results in students’ increased performance at the formal course examination. A randomized controlled trial was set up, with an interim assessment without explicit feedback as intervention. It was performed during a regular biomedical Bachelor course of 4 weeks on General Pathology at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. Participants were 326 medical and 91 biomedical science students divided into three study arms: arm Intervention-1 (I-1) receiving one interim assessment; arm I-2 receiving two interim assessments, and control arm C, receiving no interim assessment. The study arms were stratified for gender and study discipline. The interim assessment consisted of seven multiple-choice questions on tumour pathology. Main outcome measures were overall score of the formal examination (scale 1–10), and the subscore of the questions on tumour pathology (scale 1–10). We found that students who underwent an interim assessment (arm I) had a 0.29-point (scale 1–10) higher score on the formal examination than the control group (p = 0.037). For the questions in the formal examination on tumour pathology the score amounted to 0.47 points higher (p = 0.007), whereas it was 0.17 points higher for the questions on topics related to the previous 3 weeks. No differences in formal examination score were found between arms I-1 and I-2 (p = 0.817). These findings suggest that an interim assessment during a small group work session in a randomized study setting stimulates students to increase their formal examination score. Springer Netherlands 2011-03-27 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3274674/ /pubmed/21442416 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10459-011-9291-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2011 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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