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In such tests the pass level is often set by predetermining the proportion of students given each grade or ‘grading on the curve’ as it is often called buy 200 mg pyridium with visa. Some assumptions made are not appropriate to assessing learning in universities pyridium 200 mg lowest price, and the approach can be shown to lack an educational justification. For example, do we seriously set out in our teaching to ensure that, no matter how well students achieve the objectives, because of our grading on the curve policy, some will fail? Surely, our task is to help all students to achieve the objectives and reduce gaps between them rather than getting a ‘spread of scores’. In medicine we are often more concerned to establish that the students achieve some minimal standard of compe- tence. In this case, the criterion-referenced approach is 132 more appropriate. Such an approach necessitates the determination of an absolute standard before administer- ing the assessment, rather than waiting to see the overall results before doing so. Though this can be difficult to implement, we have found that attempting to do so is a powerful way of improving the validity of the assessment. Everyone concerned is forced to consider each item in the assessment and ask themselves if it is relevant and set at the appropriate level of difficulty. Our own experiences with such an approach used to test clinical competence in the final year of the medical degree have been very revealing and rewarding. The issue of standard setting is one which is achieving growing attention as the focus of assessment moves from norm-referenced to criterion-referenced or competency based testing. Established procedures are available for setting absolute standards in objective-type tests but are less well developed for clinical examinations. This is too complex and too difficult an area to discuss in this book but reading the article by Norcini is strongly recommended if you have responsibility for a ‘high stakes’ examination.

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