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01-12-2018 | Commentary
Assuring the quality of programmatic assessment: Moving beyond psychometrics
Authors:
Sebastian Uijtdehaage, Lambert W. T. Schuwirth
Published in:
Perspectives on Medical Education
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Issue 6/2018
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Excerpt
The concept of programmatic assessment in health professions education was introduced in 2005 [
1] and is rapidly gaining traction. Its central tenet is appealing: assessing learners longitudinally with a variety of methods that are embedded in the educational process, and that afford both assessment
of learning and assessment
for learning. Programmatic assessment accommodates both low-stake and high-stake decisions and is reminiscent of what a vocal coach does: he helps to make a singer achieve his or her utmost potential (by giving frequent feedback) but eventually will make a summative decision whether the singer can join the choir or can be the soloist. …