Claim EDU-10

Claim EDU-10

In the assessment of professional competence, reliability depends less on standardisation than on sampling: holistic expert judgements become reliable when they are sampled widely enough across occasions, content and judges.Known (claim EDU-10: sources and how to dispute it)Part Five

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Known. Supported by robust, replicated evidence and accepted by the relevant scientific mainstream. Solid ground.
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finding. A claim about how the world is, answerable to evidence.
Where it appears in the book
Part Five, What Can Be Measured and What Must Not Be
How it was checked
Checked against the source

Sources

  1. van der Vleuten, C. P. M., & Schuwirth, L. W. T. (2005). Assessing professional competence: from methods to programmes. Medical Education, 39(3), 309-317. DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2929.2005.02094.x

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