Educational Measurement

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 2019 ACC/AHA/ASE Advanced Training Statement on Echocardiography (Revision of the 2003 ACC/AHA Clinical Competence Statement on Echocardiography): A Report of the ACC Competency Management Committee. 
  • A Multi-Institution Collaboration to Define Core Content and Design Flexible Curricular Components for a Foundational Medical School Course: Implications for National Curriculum Reform. 
  • A Smartphone-based Decision Support Tool Improves Test Performance Concerning Application of the Guidelines for Managing Regional Anesthesia in the Patient Receiving Antithrombotic or Thrombolytic Therapy. 
  • A comparison of knowledge acquisition and perceived efficacy of a traditional vs flipped classroom-based dermatology residency curriculum. 
  • A comparison of knowledge, synthesis, and clinical judgment. Multiple-choice questions in the assessment of physician competence. 
  • A continuum of competency assessment: the potential for reciprocal use of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education toolbox and the components of the American Board of Pediatrics Maintenance-of-Certification Program. 
  • A criterion-referenced examination in cardiovascular disease. 
  • A cross-sectional study of medical students' knowledge of patient safety and quality improvement. 
  • A first step toward understanding best practices in leadership training in undergraduate medical education: a systematic review. 
  • A national survey of the primary and acute care pediatric nurse practitioner educational preparation. 
  • A novel method for measuring learning opportunities provided by parents to young children with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • A pilot study of orthopaedic resident self-assessment using a milestones' survey just prior to milestones implementation. 
  • A problem-based learning curriculum in geriatrics for medical students. 
  • A structured educational intervention to improve targeted temperature management utilization after cardiac arrest. 
  • A study of parent/grandparent education for managing a febrile illness using the CALM approach. 
  • ABR examinations: the why, what, and how. 
  • ABR examinations: the why, what, and how. 
  • Academic Outcomes in Children With Congenital Heart Defects: A Population-Based Cohort Study. 
  • Academic and Demographic Predictors of NCLEX-RN Pass Rates in First- and Second-Degree Accelerated BSN Programs. 
  • Acgme, test thyself! 
  • Administering the American Board of Pediatrics in-training examination in a European pediatrics residency. 
  • American College of Surgeons Resident Objective Structured Clinical Examination: a national program to assess clinical readiness of entering postgraduate year 1 surgery residents. 
  • An Innovative Use of Telepresence Robots for Educating Healthcare Professional. 
  • An advanced course in long term care for geriatric medicine fellows. 
  • An analysis of the knowledge base of practicing internists as measured by the 1980 recertification examination. 
  • An assessment of the understanding and motivations of patients with schizophrenia about participating in a clinical trial. 
  • Another Look at Competencies and Clinical Evaluation: From 40 Years Ago. 
  • Are there nutritional and other benefits associated with family meals among at-risk youth? 
  • Assessing interpersonal and communication skills in emergency medicine. 
  • Assessing intraoperative judgment using script concordance testing through the gynecology continuum of practice. 
  • Assessing medical knowledge of emergency medicine residents. 
  • Assessing patient care: summary of the breakout group on assessment of observable learner performance. 
  • Assessing professionalism: summary of the working group on assessment of observable learner performance. 
  • Assessing the Effectiveness of a Health Care Economics Curriculum for Radiology Residents. 
  • Assessment Scores of a Mock Objective Structured Clinical Examination Administered to 99 Anesthesiology Residents at 8 Institutions. 
  • Assessment and grading practices in schools of nursing: national survey findings part I. 
  • Assessment of intraoperative judgment during gynecologic surgery using the Script Concordance Test. 
  • Audio feedback for student writing in online nursing courses: exploring student and instructor reactions. 
  • Barriers to screening and intervention for ED patients at risk for undiagnosed or uncontrolled hypertension. 
  • Bioelectricity-AQA, one of the first MOOC courses in engineering. 
  • Can physician education lower the cost of prescription drugs? A prospective, controlled trial. 
  • Changes in fall prevention training for apprentice carpenters based on a comprehensive needs assessment. 
  • Clinical evaluation and grading practices in schools of nursing: national survey findings part II. 
  • Clinical teaching in nursing education. 
  • Collecting Validity Evidence: A Hands-on Workshop for Medical Education Assessment Instruments. 
  • Comparison of two instructional modalities for nursing student CPR skill acquisition. 
  • Competence in CPR. 
  • Competencies, Milestones, and a Level of Supervision Scale for Entrustable Professional Activities for Scholarship. 
  • Computer simulation as a component of catheter-based training. 
  • Computer-based evaluation of pediatric dental residents' clinical performance. 
  • Computer-based learning in medical education: a critical view. 
  • Concept Maps for Improved Science Reasoning and Writing: Complexity Isn't Everything. 
  • Considerations Around Predicting Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam Scores From PACKRAT®: A Multiprogram Study. 
  • Core content in-training assessment: another look. 
  • Correlation of Virtual Reality Simulation and Dry Lab Robotic Technical Skills. 
  • Cost and logistics for implementing the American College of Surgeons objective structured clinical examination. 
  • Crowdsourcing: a valid alternative to expert evaluation of robotic surgery skills. 
  • Current literature: an educational tool to study osteonecrosis for the Orthopaedic In-Training Examination? 
  • Current practices in evaluating radiology residents, faculty, and programs: results of a survey of radiology residency program directors. 
  • Curriculum outcomes and cognitive development: new perspectives for nursing education. 
  • DNA repair capacity in healthy medical students during and after exam stress. 
  • Debriefing in the intensive care unit: a feedback tool to facilitate bedside teaching. 
  • Declines Noted in Cognitive Processes and Association With Achievement Among Children With Leukemia. 
  • Defining successful performance among pediatric residents. 
  • Determinants of resident competence in mastoidectomy: role of interest and deliberate practice. 
  • Developing a Tool to Assess Placement of Central Venous Catheters in Pediatrics Patients. 
  • Developing and scoring essay tests. 
  • Development and Validation of the Cochlear Implant Surgical Competency Assessment Instrument. 
  • Development and implementation of a formalized geriatric surgery curriculum for general surgery residents. 
  • Development and participant assessment of a practical quality improvement educational initiative for surgical residents. 
  • Development and pilot testing of an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) on hoarseness. 
  • Development and preliminary assessment of a critical care ultrasound course in an adult pulmonary and critical care fellowship program. 
  • Development and validation of a questionnaire to assess the knowledge of mechanical ventilation in urgent care among students in their last-year medical course in Brazil. 
  • Development of a web-based, specialty specific portfolio. 
  • Direct Observation Reassessed. 
  • Disabled nurses. 
  • Discharge summary training curriculum: a novel approach to training medical students how to write effective discharge summaries. 
  • Do Differences in Programmatic Resource Investments Result in Different 3-Year Pass Rates on the U.S. National Physical Therapy Examination? 
  • Does emotional intelligence influence success during medical school admissions and program matriculation?: a systematic review. 
  • Does medical school performance predict radiology resident performance? 
  • Does practice make perfect? Resident experience with breast surgery influences excision adequacy. 
  • Education research: neurology residency training in the new millennium. 
  • Educational resources for the Orthopedic In-Training Examination. 
  • Effect of a traditional Chinese medicine course for undergraduate nursing students: A pre-/post-test study. 
  • Effective use of feedback. 
  • Effectiveness of a critical care nursing course: preparing students for practice in critical care. 
  • Effectiveness of medical resident education in mechanical ventilation. 
  • Effects of early childhood supplementation on the educational achievement of women. 
  • Emerging issues regarding pediatric nurse practitioner education in acute and primary care. 
  • End-of-Course Examinations: 10 Tips for Preparing Your Tests. 
  • Enhancing pediatric safety: assessing and improving resident competency in life-threatening events with a computer-based interactive resuscitation tool. 
  • Ensuring NCLEX-RN success for first-time test-takers. 
  • Environmental contributors to the achievement gap. 
  • Establishing Inter- and Intrarater Reliability for High-Stakes Testing Using Simulation. 
  • Establishing cutoff scores on assessments of surgical skills to determine surgical competence. 
  • Evaluation of a Sickle Cell Disease Educational Website for Emergency Providers. 
  • Evaluation of a Standardized Program for Training Practicing Anesthesiologists in Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia Skills. 
  • Evaluation of a course for general practitioners on muscles and joints. 
  • Evaluation of self-perception of mechanical ventilation knowledge among Brazilian final-year medical students, residents and emergency physicians. 
  • Exploring student preferences with a Q-sort: the development of an individualized renal physiology curriculum. 
  • External examiners. 
  • Facilitated Versus Self-guided Training of Non-ophthalmologists for Grading Pre-plus and Plus Disease Using Fundus Images for Retinopathy of Prematurity Screening. 
  • Faculty evaluations of resident medical knowledge: can they be used to predict American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination performance? 
  • Feasibility of using technology to disseminate evidence to rural nurses and improve patient outcomes. 
  • Foot education improves knowledge and satisfaction among patients at high risk for diabetic foot ulcer. 
  • Fusion of psychiatric and medical high fidelity patient simulation scenarios: effect on nursing student knowledge, retention of knowledge, and perception. 
  • General competencies in radiology residency training: definitions, skills, education and assessment. 
  • Global assessment tool for emergency medicine-specific core competency evaluation. 
  • Grade Incentive to Boost Course Evaluation Response Rates. 
  • Guidelines for training in adult cardiovascular medicine. Core Cardiology Training Symposium (COCATS). Task Force 4: training in echocardiography. 
  • Guidelines for training in electronic ultrasound: guidelines for clinical application. From the ASGE. American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 
  • HeartCode BLS with voice assisted manikin for teaching nursing students: preliminary results. 
  • Hybrid Interactive and Didactic Teaching Format Improves Resident Retention and Attention Compared to Traditional Lectures. 
  • Identifying Nontechnical Skill Deficits in Trainees Through Interdisciplinary Trauma Simulation. 
  • Impact of a medical journal club on house-staff reading habits, knowledge, and critical appraisal skills. A randomized control trial. 
  • Implementing a Weaning Protocol for Cardiac Surgery Patients Using Simulation: A Quality Improvement Project. 
  • Implementing a hybrid web-based curriculum for an elective medical student clerkship in a busy surgical intensive care unit (ICU): effect on test and satisfaction scores. 
  • Implementing high-fidelity simulations with large groups of nursing students. 
  • Improving Learners' Comfort With Cesarean Sections Through the Use of High-Fidelity, Low-Cost Simulation. 
  • Improving Nurse Competencies for Using Evidence in Practice: A Pilot Study of the Language of Data Program. 
  • Improving stroke education performance measures scores: the impact of a stroke nurse coordinator. 
  • Improving the Medical Student Performance Evaluation to Facilitate Resident Selection. 
  • Incorporating geriatrics into baccalaureate nursing curricula: laying the groundwork with faculty development. 
  • Incorporating gross anatomy education into radiation oncology residency: a 2-year curriculum with evaluation of resident satisfaction. 
  • Increasing Physician Assistant Students' Team Communication Skills and Confidence Throughout Clinical Training. 
  • Individualized computer-aided education in mammography based on user modeling: concept and preliminary experiments. 
  • Infections in Older Adults: A Case-Based Discussion Series Emphasizing Antibiotic Stewardship. 
  • Inherent limitations of multiple-choice testing. 
  • Innovation in evidence-based medicine education and assessment: an interactive class for third- and fourth-year medical students. 
  • Instructor-led vs. peer-led debriefing in preoperative care simulation using standardized patients. 
  • Integrating Telepresence Robots Into Nursing Simulation. 
  • Introduction of team-based learning (TBL) at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College: experience with the ectoparasites module. 
  • Invited article: The ABPN maintenance of certification program for neurologists: past, present, and future. 
  • Is past academic productivity predictive of radiology resident academic productivity? 
  • Junior otolaryngology resident in-service exams predict written board exam passage. 
  • Lack of knowledge of glycosylated hemoglobin in patients with diabetic retinopathy. 
  • Latent class analysis: an illustrative application for education in the assessment of resident otoscopic skills. 
  • Leveraging time and learning style, iPod vs. realtime attendance at a series of medicine residents conferences: a randomised controlled trial. 
  • Maternal work hours and adolescents' school outcomes among low-income families in four urban counties. 
  • Measuring numeracy without a math test: development of the Subjective Numeracy Scale. 
  • Measuring surgical trainee perceptions to assess the operating room educational environment. 
  • Memorial consequences of multiple-choice testing on immediate and delayed tests. 
  • Memorial consequences of testing school-aged children. 
  • Methodological issues for building item banks and computerized adaptive scales. 
  • Milestone Ratings and Supervisory Role Categorizations Swim Together, but Is the Water Muddy? 
  • Milestone-Based Assessments Are Superior to Likert-Type Assessments in Illustrating Trainee Progression. 
  • Milestones for Internal Medicine Sub-interns. 
  • More on the Role of USMLE Step 1 in Resident Selection. 
  • Moving beyond confidence and competence: educational outcomes research in emergency medicine. 
  • Multicenter development, implementation, and patient safety impacts of a simulation-based module to teach handovers to pediatric residents. 
  • Multimedia computer-assisted instruction in cardiology. 
  • Multiple-choice tests stabilize access to marginal knowledge. 
  • New destinations, new trajectories? The educational progress of Hispanic youth in North Carolina. 
  • New educational technology. 
  • Objective assessment of mastoidectomy skills in the operating room. 
  • Off-service resident education in the emergency department: outline of a national standardized curriculum. 
  • One Small Step for Step 1. 
  • Optimizing the amount of simulation training used to teach vaginal delivery skills to medical students. 
  • Orthopaedic Boot Camp II: examining the retention rates of an intensive surgical skills course. 
  • Orthopaedic journal publications and their role in the preparation for the orthopaedic in-training examination. 
  • Orthopedic boot camp: examining the effectiveness of an intensive surgical skills course. 
  • Otolaryngology resident in-service examination scores predict passage of the written board examination. 
  • Outcomes of videotape instruction in clinic waiting area. 
  • Palliative Care Nursing Communication: An Evaluation of the COMFORT Model. 
  • Patient education in home care: strategies for success. 
  • Perceptions concerning hip resurfacing from attendees at the Second Annual U.S. Comprehensive Course on Total Hip Resurfacing Arthroplasty. 
  • Performance of Caribbean medical school graduates on the American Board of Internal Medicine Certifying Examinations, 1984-1986. 
  • Performance of a dangerous answer subtest within a subspecialty certifying examination. 
  • Personality Traits Are Associated with Academic Achievement in Medical School: A Nationally Representative Study. 
  • Physician training requirements in sonography: how many cases are needed for competence? 
  • Playing with curricular milestones in the educational sandbox: Q-sort results from an internal medicine educational collaborative. 
  • Predict Resident Exam Performance (PREP) study. 
  • Predictors of a Top Performer During Emergency Medicine Residency. 
  • Pulmonary Artery Catheters: Impact of e-Learning on Hemodynamic Assessments. 
  • Quality improvement initiative for chronic pain assessment and management in the nursing home: a pilot study. 
  • Quantitative assessment of procedural competence. A prospective study of training in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. 
  • Radiation Biology for Radiation Oncology Residents: An Alternative View. 
  • Radiology education in China. 
  • Ratings of residents' clinical competence and performance on certification examination. 
  • Reflections on a Physician Assistant Entrance Exam: Does the Profession Need One? 
  • Reinventing the Wheel: One Program's Approach to Redesign of Didactic Courses. 
  • Relevance. Pharmacology in the high-school classroom. 
  • Reliability, validity and efficiency of multiple choice question and patient management problem item formats in assessment of clinical competence. 
  • Resident designed intern orientation to address the new ACGME Common Program Requirements for resident supervision. 
  • Retrieving and applying knowledge to different examples promotes transfer of learning. 
  • Same Content, Different Methods: Comparing Lecture, Engaged Classroom, and Simulation. 
  • Screening for critical congenital heart disease in newborns using pulse oximetry: evaluation of nurses' knowledge and adherence. 
  • Selectivity of physiotherapist programs in the United States does not differ by institutional funding source or research activity level. 
  • Simulation-based morbidity and mortality conference: new technologies augmenting traditional case-based presentations. 
  • Social work competencies in palliative and end-of-life care. 
  • Standardized assessment for evaluation of team skills: validity and feasibility. 
  • Standardized, Interdepartmental, Simulation-Based Central Line Insertion Course Closes an Educational Gap and Improves Intern Comfort with the Procedure. 
  • Stories we teach by: intersections among faculty biography, student formation, and instructional processes. 
  • Student Evaluations of Teaching: There Is More to Course Evaluations Than Student Ratings. 
  • Student USMLE step 1 preparation and performance. 
  • Student satisfaction and self report of CPR competency: HeartCode BLS courses, instructor-led CPR courses, and monthly voice advisory manikin practice for CPR skill maintenance. 
  • Summative Assessments Using Simulation Requires Safeguards. 
  • Summative Simulated-Based Assessment in Nursing Programs. 
  • Surgical volunteerism as a collaborative teaching activity can benefit surgical residents in low-middle income countries. 
  • Symposium: Results of a national study of a computer simulation (CASE) and the American Board of Internal Medicine's recertification examination: the MERIT Project. 
  • Task Force 12: training in advanced cardiovascular imaging (cardiovascular magnetic resonance [CMR]) endorsed by the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. 
  • Task Force 8: Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Training in Research and Scholarly Activity. SPCTPD/ACC/AAP/AHA. 
  • Teaching Clinical Ophthalmology: Medical Student Feedback on Team Case-Based Versus Lecture Format. 
  • Teaching crucial skills: An electrocardiogram teaching module for medical students. 
  • Teaching family medicine: a longitudinal and modular competency-based approach. 
  • Teaching quality essentials: the effectiveness of a team-based quality improvement curriculum in a tertiary health care institution. 
  • Teens learning epidemiology? A cohort study on epidemiology instruction for high school youth. 
  • Temporal view of the costs and benefits of self-deception. 
  • Test of a cardiology patient simulator with students in fourth-year electives. 
  • Test-Retest Reliability of the Genetics and Genomics in Nursing Practice Survey Instrument. 
  • The 5Cs of Consultation: Training Medical Students to Communicate Effectively in the Emergency Department. 
  • The AAMC Medical Student Performance Evaluation Task Force Recommendations: Do They Go Far Enough? 
  • The American Board of Internal Medicine recertification examination: process and results. 
  • The Cost of Applying to Medical School - A Barrier to Diversifying the Profession. 
  • The Development and Evaluation of a Novel Instrument Assessing Residents' Discharge Summaries. 
  • The Efficacy of an Antioppression Curriculum for Health Professionals. 
  • The National League for Nursing Project to Explore the Use of Simulation for High-Stakes Assessment: Process, Outcomes, and Recommendations. 
  • The Treatment of Metabolic Acidosis: An Interactive Case-Based Learning Activity. 
  • The Value of Numerical USMLE Step 1 Scores in Radiology Resident Selection. 
  • The current state of core competency assessment in emergency medicine and a future research agenda: recommendations of the working group on assessment of observable learner performance. 
  • The development, implementation, and process evaluation of the REACH Detroit Partnership's Diabetes Lifestyle Intervention. 
  • The effect of changes in medical knowledge on examination performance at the time of recertification. 
  • The enhanced examination for professional practice in psychology: A viable approach? 
  • The evolving landscape of self-assessment continuing medical education (SA-CME). 
  • The future of pediatric residency education: prescription for more flexibility. 
  • The geriatrics excellence in teaching series: an integrated educational skills curriculum for faculty and fellows development. 
  • The impact of disease duration on quality of life in children with nephrotic syndrome: a Midwest Pediatric Nephrology Consortium study. 
  • The impact of high fidelity human simulation on self-efficacy of communication skills. 
  • The impact of interactive, computerized educational modules on preclinical medical education. 
  • The in-training examination: an analysis of its predictive value on performance on the general pediatrics certification examination. 
  • The lived experience of new graduate nurses working in an acute care setting. 
  • The memorial consequences of multiple-choice testing. 
  • The relationship between early childhood blood lead levels and performance on end-of-grade tests. 
  • The relationship between features of residency training and ABIM certifying examination performance. 
  • The scoring and reproducibility of an essay test of clinical judgment. 
  • The selection of medical students at McMaster University. 
  • The timely completion of objective assessment tools for evaluation of technical skills. 
  • The unintended consequences of portfolios in graduate medical education. 
  • The validity of an essay test of clinical judgment. 
  • Thinking About Teaching in Nursing. 
  • Tools for the direct observation and assessment of psychomotor skills in medical trainees: a systematic review. 
  • Toward a national consensus: teaching radiobiology to radiation oncology residents. 
  • Tracking medical students' clinical experiences with a computerized medical records system. 
  • Training femoral neck screw insertion skills to surgical trainees: computer-assisted surgery versus conventional fluoroscopic technique. 
  • Turning Objective Structured Clinical Examinations into Reality. 
  • USMLE and Otolaryngology: Predicting Board Performance. 
  • Use of a heart sound simulator in teaching cardiac auscultation. 
  • Use of and reactions to a tailored CD-ROM designed to enhance oncologist-patient communication: the SCOPE trial intervention. 
  • Use of computer simulation for determining endovascular skill levels in a carotid stenting model. 
  • Using Critical Care Simulations to Prepare Nursing Students for Capstone Clinical Experiences. 
  • Using Simulation for Summative Evaluation in Nursing. 
  • Using Transitional Year Milestones to Assess Graduating Medical Students' Skills During a Capstone Course. 
  • Using the jigsaw cooperative learning method to teach medical students about long-term and postacute care. 
  • Utilization of electronic modified early warning score to engage rapid response team early in clinical deterioration. 
  • Validated System for Centralized Grading of Retinopathy of Prematurity: Telemedicine Approaches to Evaluating Acute-Phase Retinopathy of Prematurity (e-ROP) Study. 
  • Virtual patient simulations and optimal social learning context: a replication of an aptitude-treatment interaction effect. 
  • Working group 4: International medical graduates and the cardiology workforce. 
  • [Problem-based learning--a cautious approach]. 
  • myTIPreport and Training for Independent Practice: A Tool for Real-Time Workplace Feedback for Milestones and Procedural Skills. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Andolsek, Kathryn Marijoan, Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, School of Medicine
  • Clotfelter, Charles T., Z. Smith Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Economics
  • De Gagne, Jennie, Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Jowell, Paul Simon, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Gastroenterology
  • Ladd, Helen F., Susan B. King Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, Economics
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, with tenure, School of Nursing
  • Steinbach, William J., Samuel L. Katz Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Stinnett, Sandra Sue, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Taekman, Jeffrey Marc, Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Neuroanesthesia