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Subject: Response to review 3: exporting experience to other disciplines

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Tracey Winning
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30/05/2007 08:14  
I think the approach is useable in other disciplines, both in terms of using their specific criteria and standards, in conjunction with activities like we have used in our workshops. I was thinking in terms of any of the health sciences or law, where any actual activity students need to perform, like taking a blood pressure, taking a history, providing advice re exercises in physio or a manipulation, or interviewing a client in law - provided there is an example of another student doing this that can then be reviewed/discussed, assessed (I think).

Also, I am not sure we need to have 'testing' exercises to assess the full range of clinical issues -the key is to focus on core areas and then select across these.

I am sure there is more to say here - interested if other can see how this might work in their situations
Ann Wilkinson
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30/05/2007 08:32  
I would be interested to know if there is any evidence that this aproach has been used to assess the assessors?
Nigel Watson
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30/05/2007 08:52  
Thanks for your comments, one thing I might have missed, were these real clinics or set up situations or perhaps pre recorded examples of clinics, I had just assumed that these clinics were students in "close to real" situations.

Nigel
Tracey Winning
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30/05/2007 09:03  
Nigel,

the examples of the 'peers' were students doing a 1st y activity all 1st y do in semester 1, based on actual issues that have arisen in the past. We have used these videos for supporting tutors in their assessment role as well.
Tracey Winning
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30/05/2007 09:07  
Ann, do you mean the staff or the students? We have tried to collect data on students assessment of the peer videos and are still in the process of analysing this data. We used a similar approach when we used these videos to support PG tutors in their role as assessors in clinic - at this stage we didn't seem to make much of an impact on their identifying more aspects of the students performance, though there was preliminary evidence that their understanding of the tutor performance improved. Hope this answers aspects of your q
Ann Wilkinson
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30/05/2007 10:59  
We are about to do some research into reliability of non-academic assessors in the workplace (health). Inter rater reliability questions. The design of your study appears to have similarities although we are mainly looking at assesor performance.
Tracey Winning
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31/05/2007 12:28  
That sounds very interesting. I would be interested to hear what previous reports you have looked at re inter-rater reliability and how this might be reduced - I have a couple of older papers from investigations of groups of assessors at different levels of experience/training (approx 1980 and 1989 I think) but haven't been able to find more recent investigations - both of these papers focussed on the training of assessors and trying to reduce variation. I will be interested to hear what you do/how you go.
Tracey Winning
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31/05/2007 14:32  
I mean increase reliabilty and reduce variability!
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