Rubrics, Assessment and eProctoring in Education

The NEET exam has triggered nationwide protests, with students saying it has jeopardised their future.

The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) has been traditionally viewed as a highly valued tool for assessing clinical competence in health professions education. However, as the OSCE typically consists of a large-scale, face-to-face assessment activity, it has been variably criticized over recent years due to the extensive resourcing and relative expense required for delivery. Importantly, due to COVID-pandemic conditions and necessary health guidelines in 2020 and 2021, logistical issues inherent with OSCE delivery were exacerbated for many institutions across the globe. As a result, alternative clinical assessment strategies were employed to gather assessment datapoints to guide decision-making regarding student progression. Now, as communities learn to “live with COVID”, health professions educators have the opportunity to consider what weight should be placed on the OSCE as a tool for clinical assessment in the peri-pandemic world. In order to elucidate this timely clinical assessment issue, this qualitative study utilized focus group discussions to explore the perceptions of 23 clinical assessment stakeholders (examiners, students, simulated patients and administrators) in relation to the future role of the traditional OSCE. Thematic analysis of the FG transcripts revealed four major themes in relation to participants' views on the future of the OSCE vis-a-vis other clinical assessments in this peri-pandemic climate. The identified themes are (a) endurin

In the desperate scramble to combat AI, there is a real danger of penalising students who have done nothing wrong, says Robert Topinka of Birkbeck, University of London

Image generated by DALL-E with the prompt 'student working on assessment on their computer' Authentic Assessment in The Age of Generative AI Michael Sankey We have all struggled with the advent of Generative AI in higher education, and the last 10 months has been quite the ride, particularly in terms of how quickly this has…

The release of ChatGPT has many in higher education worried about the threat it poses to academic integrity, but what if it could be used to help?

There must be a better approach to measuring a junior doctors’ skills, commitment and knowledge than the current battery of examinations, writes a trainee who obtained the highest clinical examination score at their training hospital. I thought it was time we talked about the exams through which we put every doctor who wants to specialise. …

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