Assessment Issues in Competency-Based Education in the Professions

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Competency-based education focuses on ensuring that students learn various skills thought to be essential for the successful practice of a profession. Such an emphasis on competencies requires the development of new approaches to teaching and assessment. Within medical education, notions about how best to teach and assess physicians within a competency framework abound. Performance-based assessments provide one mechanism for evaluating various clinical skills, yet scoring such assessments is complex. This symposium includes four papers that explore the use of various types of assessments in the context of competency-based curricula within the field of medicine. While the papers included in this symposium focus on medicine, the substantive educational issues explored and methodological approaches employed remain broadly relevant for other professions.

Sub Unit

• Division I - Education in the Professions

Chair

• Monica M. Cuddy, National Board of Medical Examiners

Papers

• Is Programmatic Assessment a Practically Useful Theory of Assessment in Competency-Based Education? - Marjan Govaerts, Maastricht University

• Two Personal Factors of Surgical Residents Affecting Metacognitive Competency - Eunmi Park, Johns Hopkins University

• Comparison of Automated Scoring Algorithms Developed for a Patient Management Assessment by Independent Groups of Practicing Physicians - Ulana A. Luciw-Dubas, National Board of Medical Examiners

• Evaluating Linking Errors for a Large-Scale High-Stakes Clinical Skills Licensing Exam - Fang Tian, Medical Council of Canada

Discussant

• Lynn Curry, Curry Corporation