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To monitor and maintain quality educational experiences in pediatric clerkships offered in five communities, a common set of objectives, evaluation procedures, and performance expectations were developed. Two goals of the evaluation program have been to provide data for: 1) determination of inter and intra-program comparability; and 2) grading decisions and feedback to students.
A package of evaluation techniques was developed and used in all five sites. Data were collected in the areas of interviewing, multiple choice examination, clinical problem solving paper cases, and instructors' ratings. Data for the 202 students from 1980-82 were reviewed utilizing analyses of covariance. Using clerkship entry assessments as pretest covariates: 1) differences were found between students who passed and those who had deficiencies on their final multiple choice exam (p<.00001), final paper cases (p<.05), and instructor ratings (p<.00001); 2) no differences were found between communities for the final multiple choice examination (p<.293) or paper cases (p<.221); significant differences by community were found in ratings by instructors (p<.00001).
The clerkships build on the strengths of communities without resulting in student performance differences in the cognitive areas. Investigation will be done to explore the community differences in instructor ratings.
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Black, M., Doughty, A. REVIEWING STUDENT PERFORMANCE DATA FROM PEDIATRIC CLERKSHIPS OFFERED IN MULTIPLE SITES. Pediatr Res 18 (Suppl 4), 228 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-198404001-00811
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-198404001-00811