Bookedited by Rachel Yudkowsky, Yoon Soo Park, and Steven M. Downing
Summary: Assessment in Health Professions Education, second edition, provides a comprehensive guide for educators in the health professions--medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and allied health fields. This second edition has been extensively revised and updated by leaders in the field. Part I of the book presents an introduction to assessment fundamentals and their theoretical underpinnings from the perspective of the health professions. Part II covers specific assessment methods, with a focus on validity, best practices, challenges, and practical guidelines for the effective implementation of successful assessment programs. Part III addresses special topics and recent innovative approaches, including narrative assessment, situational judgment tests, programmatic assessment, mastery learning settings, and the key features approach. This accessible text addresses the essential concepts for the health professions educator and provides the background needed to understand, interpret, develop, and effectively implement assessment methods.
Contents:
Section 1: Fundamentals of assessment
1. Introduction to assessment in the health professions / Rachel Yudkowsky, Yoon Soo Park, and Steven M. Downing
2. Validity and quality / Matthew Lineberry
3. Reliability / Yoon Soo Park
4. Generalizability theory / Clarence D. Kreiter, Nikki L. Zaidi, and Yoon Soo Park
5. Statistics of testing / Steven M. Downing, Dorthea Juul, and Yoon Soo Park
6. Standard setting / Rachel Yudkowsky, Steven M. Downing, and Ara Tekian
Section 2: Assessment Methods
7. Written tests: Writing high-quality constructed-response and selected-response items / Miguel Paniagua, Kimberly A. Swygert, and Steven M. Downing
8. Oral examinations / Dorthea Juul, Rachel Yudkowsky, and Ara Tekian
9. Performance tests / Rachel Yudkowsky
10. Workplace-based assessment / Mary E. McBride, Mark D. Adler, and William C. McGaphie
11. Narrative Assessment / Nancy Dudek and David Cook
12. Assessment Portfolios / Daniel J. Schumacher, Ara Tekian, and Rachel Yudkowsky
Section 3: Special topics
13. Key features approach / Georges Bordage and Gordon Page
14. Simulations in assessment / Luke A. Devine, William C. McGaghie, and Barry Issenberg
15. Situational judgment tests / Harold I. Reiter and Christopher Roberts
16. Programmatic assessment: An avenue to a different assessment culture / Cees van der Vleuten, Sylvia Heeneman, and Suzanne Schut
17. Assessment affecting learning / Matthew Lineberry
18. Assessment in mastery learning settings / Matthew Linberry, Rachel Yudkowsky, Yoon Soo Park, David Cook, E. Matthew Ritter, and Aaron Knox
19. Item response theory / Yoon Soo Park
20. Engaging with your statistician / Alan Schwartz and Yoon Soo Park.