A total of 7931 ratings of 482 third- and
fourth-year medical students were gath
ered over twelve four-week periods.
Ratings were made by multiple raters,
house officers, and attending faculty, on
fifteen behaviorally-anchored rating
scales. The data were factor analyzed
separately for each of the twelve periods.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
Cowles, J.T. (1965) "A critical-comments approach to the rating of medical students' clinical performance."J. of Medical Education40: 188-198.
2.
——— and A. J. Kubany (1959) "Improving the measurement of clinical performance of medical students."J. of Clinical Psychology15: 139-142.
3.
Diederich, P.B. (1954) "The 'critical incidents' technique applied to medical education."Research memorandum 54-9, Educational Testing Service.
4.
Geertsma, R.H. and J. E. Chapman (1967) "The evaluation of medical students."J. of Medical Education42. 938-948.
5.
Gough, H.G., W B. Hall, and R. E. Harris (1964) "Evaluation of performance in medical training."J. of Medical Education39: 679-692.
6.
Guertin, W.H. and J. P. Bailey , Jr. (1970) Introduction to Modern Factor Analysis. Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers.
7.
Harman, H.H. (1960) Modern Factor Analysis. Chicago : Univ of Chicago Press.
8.
Landis, J.R. and G G. Koch (1977) "The measurement of observer agreement for categorical data "Biometrics33: 159-174.
9.
Printen, K.J., W Chappell, and D R Whitney (1973) "Clinical performance evaluation of junior medical students."J. of Medical Education48343-348
