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Posted: | Karen E. Hauer, Daniel Jurich, Jonathan Vandergrift, Rebecca S. Lipner, Furman S. McDonald, Kenji Yamazaki, Davoren Chick, Kevin McAllister, Eric S. Holmboe

Academic Medicine: Volume 96 - Issue 6 - p 876-884(9)

 

This study examines whether there are group differences in milestone ratings submitted by program directors working with clinical competency committees based on gender for internal medicine residents and whether women and men rated similarly on subsequent in-training and certification examinations.

Posted: | B.C. Leventhal, I. Grabovsky

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 39: 30-36

 

This article proposes the conscious weight method and subconscious weight method to bring more objectivity to the standard setting process. To do this, these methods quantify the relative harm of the negative consequences of false positive and false negative misclassification.