Clarifying Assessment and Measurement Issues Across Disciplines and Professions

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this interactive symposium, panelists and participants will examine challenges and opportunities related to defining constructs and capabilities within and across professions, illuminating and then refining measures to inform teaching and learning. While there is little consensus about the nature of relationships between knowledge bases and professional aptitudes, outside pressures are increasing on secondary and undergraduate schools to appropriately prepare students for professional study , and on professional schools to graduate students who perform competently. Thus, educational researchers are reviewing opportunities to refine and assess students’ abilities to define and solve problems they will encounter, especially in interprofessional contexts. We are initiating this symposium as an initial step toward developing a research agenda and additional resources.

Sub Unit

• Division I - Education in the Professions

Chair

• Danette Waller McKinley, Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research

Papers

• Learning and Assessment of Competencies: Two Sides of the Same Coin - Paul F. Wimmers, University of California - Los Angeles; Lourdes R. Guerrero, University of California - Los Angeles; Susan Baillie, University of California - Los Angeles

• Assessing Student Learning Outcomes Across a Curriculum: Resolving Judgment and Validity Issues Across Disciplines and Professions - Marcia Mentkowski, Alverno College

• Measurement Issues in Conducting Action Research Across Primary Care Professions - Anne Christine McKee, King's College London

• Assessment Challenges in Creating the Uniform Bar Examination: The Three P’s—Politics, Practicality, and Psychometrics - Douglas R. Ripkey, National Conference of Bar Examiners

• Clarifying Definitions and Measures of Clinical Thinking: A Systematic Review - Lily Fountain, University of Maryland

Discussant

• Andre F. De Champlain, Medical Council of Canada