Background Simulation plays a vital role in health professions assessment. This review
provides a primer on assessment validation for educators and education researchers. We …

Since the 1970s, assessment of competence in the health professions has been dominated
by a discourse of psychometrics that emphasizes the conversion of human behaviors to …

Context Assessment is central to medical education and the validation of assessments is
vital to their use. Earlier validity frameworks suffer from a multiplicity of types of validity or …

Medical Education 2010: 44: 358–366 Context The growing popularity of less familiar
methodologies in medical education research, and the use of related data collection …

Context Performance assessments, such as workplace‐based assessments (WBA s),
represent a crucial component of assessment strategy in medical education. Persistent …

Context Although work‐based assessments (WBA) may come closest to assessing habitual
performance, their use for summative purposes is not undisputed. Most criticism of WBA …

Context Mixed methods research involves the collection, analysis and integration of both
qualitative and quantitative data in a single study. The benefits of a mixed methods …

Quantitative scores fail to capture all important features of learner performance. This
awareness has led to increased use of qualitative data when assessing health …

Context Professionalism is a hot topic in medical education, yet there is debate about what
professionalism actually is. The reason is that medical educators primarily frame …

In the medical profession, activities related to ensuring access to care, navigating the
system, mobilizing resources, addressing health inequities, influencing health policy and …