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PAR-40043 - Module Specification
School of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 29 April 2024

PAR-40043 - Developing and Delivering Assessment in Clinical Education
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Level: Level 7
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733928

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites



Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25


Aims
The module aims to provide an understanding of how to develop assessment items and programmes in clinical education and provide an overview of assessment development, emendation, standard setting, psychometric analysis and feedback.

Intended Learning Outcomes

identify and evaluate a range of assessment strategies and methodologies and explore how they can how they can be combined to form different programmes of assessment: 1
apply guidelines and frameworks to design a range of reliable and valid assessment items: 2
implement and critically evaluate approaches to standard setting an assessment to derive a pass score: 3
define and calculate psychometric indices to evaluate the reliability and validity of an assessment: 3
utilise psychometric indicators to inform and enhance assessments in the future: 3

Study hours

Pre-course reading/familiarisation with assessment: 10 hours
Lectures and small group work: 15 hours
Independent study task (post day 1): 10 hours
Consolidation research and reading: 39 hours
Assessment task 1 (Exercise): 30 hours
Assessment task 2 (Presentation): 10 hours
Assessment task 3 (Reflection/written task): 30 hours
Presentation day/attendance: 6 hours

School Rules

Applicants should be graduate, or equivalent, health professionals preparing for or currently engaged in teaching.

Description of Module Assessment

Please note that for the 2022/23 Academic Year programmes may be adapted to operate in accordance with a flexible, digital approach. This means that there may be some changes made to how modules are delivered and assessed. The latest information will be provided to you by your School in module handbooks. We endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes and details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/student-terms-and-conditions/

Last Updated: 29 April 2024