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Posted: | Irina Grabovsky, Jerusha J. Henderek, Ulana A. Luciw-Dubas, Brent Pierce, Soren Campbell, Katherine S. Monroe

Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development: Volume 10

In-training examinations (ITEs) are a popular teaching tool for certification programs. This study examines the relationship between examinees’ performance on the National Commission for Certification of Anesthesiologist Assistants (NCCAA) ITE and the high-stakes NCCAA Certification Examination.

Posted: | Carol Morrison, Jennifer Wise, Marie Maranki, Linette Ross

Medical Science Educator: Volume 31, p 607–613 (2021)

 

This study extended previous research on the NBME Clinical Science Mastery Series self-assessments to investigate the utility of recently released self-assessments for students completing Family Medicine clerkships and Emergency Medicine sub-internships and preparing for summative assessments.

Posted: | C. Liu, M. J. Kolen

Journal of Educational Measurement: Volume 55, Issue 4, Pages 564-581

 

Smoothing techniques are designed to improve the accuracy of equating functions. The main purpose of this study is to compare seven model selection strategies for choosing the smoothing parameter (C) for polynomial loglinear presmoothing and one procedure for model selection in cubic spline postsmoothing for mixed‐format pseudo tests under the random groups design.