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Objectives. Define clinical competence and authentic performanceDesign an authentic performance assessmentImplement an authentic performance assessment. Teach to and Test Desired Endpoints:. What is the First Principle of Education?. . Educational Outcomes. Pass Oral Boards. Pass Written Boards.
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1. Authentic Performance Assessment Ellen J. Lehning, Ph.D.
Department of Anesthesiology
3. Teach to and Test Desired Endpoints: What is the First Principle of Education?
5. What is Clinical Competence? “Integration of knowledge, skills and attitudes.”
6. What is Clinical Competence? “The habitual and judicious use of communication, knowledge, technical skills, clinical reasoning, emotions, values, and reflection in daily practice for the benefit of the individual and community being served.”
7. What is Clinical Competence?
8. What is Clinical Competence? “Competence . . . means being able to function in context.”
9. How is Clinical Competence Assessed? “Competence is concerned with what people can do . . ., that is, potential.”
10. What is Authentic Performance Assessment? Performance can be simulated or authentic
Simulated performance assessment uses an artificial context:
SPs, OSCEs, Long Case - Standardized or Unstandardized
Authentic performance assessment uses a real context:
Direct observation of a resident caring for a real patient with a real problem in a real setting – Unstandardized!
11. Why Use Authentic Performance? “Testing should be as close as possible to the situation in which one attacks the problem.”
“Ill-structured problems are not found in simulated and/or standardized tests.”
“The variation inherent in professional practice will always elude capture by a set of rules.”
12. How is it Done? “There are few validated strategies to assess actual clinical practice.”
“Assessment at the apex of Miller’s pyramid, the does, is the international challenge of the century for all involved in clinical competence testing.”
13. Design Step 1 – Select Competencies Breakdown ACGME’s six global competencies into specific competencies
Technical skills, case management skills, clinical decision-making skills, etc.
Avoid too broad
Avoid too specific
Appropriate for the resident’s training level
Sequenced appropriately over the training period
14. Design Step 1 – Select Competencies Write a competency statement:
Chambers and Gerrow, Manual for developing and formatting competency statements. J. Dental Educ. 58:361, 1994.
Verb
Direct Object
Qualifying conditions
15. Example Competency Statement Induce anesthesia for an ASA I-II patient by the end of the three month period
16. Example Competency Statements The Global Communication Skills Competency
Communicate accurately, efficiently and supportively with the patient, patient’s family and the health care team
Specific Communication Skill Competency
Build a Relationship (Rapport Building)
Component Skills used to Build a Relationship
Establish initial rapport Support
Empathy Partnership
Reflection Legitimation
Respect Apology
17. The Performance Rating Process Specific performances are judged by expert rater(s) who synthesize multiple impressions in comparison to criteria given in a rating task and filtered through the experience of the rater.
18. Design Step 2 – Select Sampling Which performances or tasks will be observed?
How many observations?
When?
19. Design Step 3 – Select Raters Raters are qualified individuals who have an opportunity to observe and draw conclusions about residents – they judge the presence and the quality of the competency to be assessed
20. Design Step 4 – Select Rating Criteria Rating criteria can either be checklists or rubrics
Checklists
Presence or absence of a competency or of the components of a competency
Do not judge quality
May be appropriate for technical procedures or beginning level competencies
May not capture sophistication of complex performances:
Hodges, B., Regehr, G., McNaughton, N., Tiberius, R., and Hanson, M. 1999. OSCE checklists do not capture increasing levels of expertise. Acad. Med. 74:1129-1134.
21. Example Checklist
22. Design Step 4 – Select Rating Criteria Rubrics
Guidelines, rules, or principles by which performances are judged
Reflect best thinking as to what constitutes a good performance
Contain multiple quality levels
All rating levels must be written-down, defined and described
Best rubrics contain anchor(s) to illustrate the different points on the quality scale
23. Example Rubric
24. What are the Desirable Characteristics of Performance Assessment? Face validity
25. Psychometric Issues Write good rubrics
Train the raters
Only need 1 rater/performance
Sample over a broad array of cases/patients
Our intercase agreements range from 0.2 – 0.9
Wass et al., Generalizability in range of the OSCE
ACGME preliminary data shows adequate generalizability, validity and reliability
26. Authentic Performances vs. Authentic Products
27. Why Focus on Authentic Performance Assessment? ACGME outcomes mandate
Current assessment is rudimentary
Accountability