Matthew D McEvoy, Jeremy C Smalley, Paul J Nietert, Larry C Field, Cory M Furse, John W Blenko, Benjamin G Cobb, Jenna L Walters, Allen Pendarvis, Nishita S Dalal, John J Schaefer
INTRODUCTION: Defining valid, reliable, defensible, and generalizable standards for the evaluation of learner performance is a key issue in assessing both baseline competence and mastery in medical education. However, before setting these standards of performance, the reliability of the scores yielding from a grading tool must be assessed. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to assess the reliability of scores generated from a set of grading checklists used by nonexpert raters during simulations of American Heart Association (AHA) Megacodes...
August 2012: Simulation in Healthcare: Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare