Primary FRSC (Eng). I. Evaluation of assessment techniques.
In five consecutive Primary Examinations for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the scores of candidates in the multiple choice question paper, written paper, and oral interview have been analysed for mutual correlations and for the reproducibility of the written paper score. The conclusions reached were that all these scores correlate with each other, that no score can be left out without reducing the reliability of the examination, that the marking of written papers in a close-marking system is remarkably reproducible, and that the oral score contributes most, the multiple choice question paper the least, to the overall assessment.
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