As American health professionals attempt
to create assessment mechanisms to verify
the competencies of practitioners, they are
discovering that traditional norm-refer
enced measurement strategtes are inappro priate. However , in their subsequent
adoption of criterion-referenced measure
ment strategies they have learned that
these highly descriptive measures more
clearly reveal not only what is being
measured, but also what is not being
measured. To create reliable assessment
procedures for competency verification,
a limited focus conception of measurement
is proposed wherein manageable numbers
of high-import competencies are validly
assessed.
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