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

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 25 July 2024

PAR-40043 - Developing and Delivering Assessment in Clinical Education
Coordinator: Stuart Mcbain Tel: +44 1782 679507
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
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

1: Exercise weighted 20%
Design an item(s) of assessment for use in undergraduate or postgraduate clinical education.
Design an item(s) of assessment for use in undergraduate or postgraduate clinical education. This should comprise an OSCE (objective structured clinical exam) station or a portfolio of 2 KFPs (key feature problem) or 20 SBAs (single best answer). These should be related to your own areas of expertise or current teaching activity.

2: Presentation weighted 40%
Give a presentation and answer questions relating to the design process and rationale behind your chosen assessment.
Give a 10 minute presentation describing your assessment and justifying your choice of assessment modality. There will be 10 minutes of discussion following the presentation to allow simulate an emendation process.

3: Reflective Analysis weighted 40%
Produce a written reflective analysis on the question writing and emendation process in producing assessment items
Produce a 1000 word reflective analysis on the creation of your assessment item. You should summarise the key points from the group emendation and make suggestions on how to further improve the assessment item(s).

The University undertakes a continuous review of its teaching and research provision to ensure programmes are of a high quality and changes may be made to modules where it is necessary and reasonable to do so. Please be aware that minor changes to modules, such as a change to an individual assessment, can occur up until enrolment, although we endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes. 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/legalgovernancecompliance/governance/actcharterstatutesordinancesandregulations/studenttermsconditions/

Last Updated: 25 July 2024