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Subject: Clinical self-assessment

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Jane MacKenzie
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30/05/2007 10:31  
There was some discussion about students being resistant to self-assessment. But I was wondering about colleagues. Do you find your colleagues find it hard to believe that self-assessment is rigorous and valid?
Tracey Winning
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05/06/2007 02:41  
Jane,

A good point - we are lucky in the earlier years to have staff who are pretty well totally committed to the process of self-assessment. The main resistance we experience relates to the time it takes to give the level of feedback we like to in the pressured time situation of clinic, especially when students start working with patients - time is even more pressured/short. We don't actually use the self-assessment as part of the grades students receive ie where students assign a grade for themselves and then this is somehow used in the final grade given, ie students self-assess and tutors assess and ultimately grade them on the quality of their self-assessment but it is only an aspect of one of the criteria used in clinic assessment and the grade is given for the whole of their clinical performance, not against each criterion.
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