Name
The UCSF Approach to High-Stakes Assessment: Open-Ended Questions
Date & Time
Friday, January 24, 2020, 1:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Marta Margeta
Description
The visibility of Pathology within educational settings is driven partially by the presence of Pathology topics on examinations.  The UCSF Bridges curriculum relies solely on case-based open-ended questions (OEQs) rather than multiple-choice questions (MCQs) for high-stakes written examinations in the pre-clerkship Foundational Science courses.  In this interactive workshop, we will share the motivation for this approach and initial outcomes (clerkship experience, USMLE Step 1), practice drafting and editing OEQ stems with the audience, practice evaluation of sample student answers, demonstrate how results are communicated to students, and discuss our approaches to exam remediation.
 
Objectives:
  • Practice classifying educational learning objectives according to Bloom’s taxonomy.
  • Draft and edit a sample OEQ stem.
  • Design an assessment rubric that enables the grader to judge the quality of knowledge and application of that knowledge demonstrated in a student answer.
  • Categorize sample student answers according to a 3-tier assessment model (Meets Expectations, Borderline, Doesn’t Meet Expectations).
  • Share best practices related to novel assessment strategies.
  • Outline approaches to remediation in the UCSF Bridges curriculum.
Session Type
Workshop