Rethinking Assessment Design: Evidence-Informed Strategies to Boost Educational Impact in the Anatomical Sciences

Autor/inn/en	Ryan, Anna T.; Wilkinson, Tim J.
Titel	Rethinking Assessment Design: Evidence-Informed Strategies to Boost Educational Impact in the Anatomical Sciences
Quelle	In: Anatomical Sciences Education, 14 (2021) 3, S.361-367 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ryan, Anna T.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1935-9772
DOI	10.1002/ase.2075
Schlagwörter	Allied Health Occupations Education; Medical Education; Educational Assessment; Program Evaluation; Student Evaluation; Anatomy; Evidence Based Practice + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Medizinische Ausbildung; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Anatomie
Abstract	University assessment is in the midst of transformation. Assessments are no longer designed solely to determine that students can remember and regurgitate lecture content, nor in order to rank students to aid with some future selection process. Instead, assessments are expected to drive, support, and enhance learning and to contribute to student self-assessment and development of skills and attributes for a lifetime of learning. While traditional purposes of certifying achievement and determining readiness to progress remain important, these new expectations for assessment can create tensions in assessment design, selection, and deployment. With the recognition of these tensions, three contemporary approaches to assessment in medical education are described. These approaches include careful consideration of the educational impact of assessment--before, during (test or recall enhanced learning) and after assessments; development of student (and staff) assessment literacy; and planning of cohesive systems of assessment (with a range of assessment tools) designed to assess the various competencies demanded of future graduates. These approaches purposefully straddle the cross purposes of assessment in modern health professions education. The implications of these models are explored within the context of medical education and then linked with contemporary work in the anatomical sciences in order to highlight current synergies and potential future innovations when using evidence-informed strategies to boost the educational impact of assessments. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01