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Exploring the Association Between USMLE Scores and ACGME Milestone Ratings: A Validity Study Using National Data From Emergency Medicine

Posted: | Stanley J. Hamstra, Monica M. Cuddy, Daniel Jurich, Kenji Yamazaki, John Burkhardt, Eric S. Holmboe, Michael A. Barone, Sally A. Santen

Academic Medicine: Volume 96 - Issue 9 - Pages 1324-1331

 

This study examines associations between USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 Clinical Knowledge (CK) scores and ACGME emergency medicine (EM) milestone ratings.

Category:Product-Oriented Research, USMLE, Assessment-Oriented Research, Reliability/Validity, Links to Outcomes

The Choice of Response Probability in Bookmark Standard Setting: An Experimental Study

Posted: | P. Baldwin, M.J. Margolis, B.E. Clauser, J. Mee, M. Winward

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 39: 37-44

 

This article presents the results of an experiment in which content experts were randomly assigned to one of two response probability conditions: .67 and .80. If the standard-setting judgments collected with the bookmark procedure are internally consistent, both conditions should produce highly similar cut scores.

Category:Assessment-Oriented Research, General Measurement