Assessment Fundamentals: Performance Based
Join this practical and thought-provoking workshop to strengthen your ability to design, critique, and refine performance-based assessments that are meaningful, fair, and defensible.
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Description
Health profession education programs often include some form of performance-based assessment using observers in simulation and/or workplace settings to support learning, progression, and high stakes decisions. Performance-based assessment is a method of evaluating learners by having them demonstrate their knowledge or skills through tasks or projects that mirror real world situations.
Performance-based assessments are central to evaluating clinical competence in health professions education, offering authentic insights into how learners apply knowledge, skills, and judgment in real or simulated settings. Despite the inherent complexity of such assessments, many educators are expected to design or use these assessments. Because these types of assessments require observers to interpret performance, apply assessment tools, and form judgements, educators need to be aware of ‘validity threats’ that might undermine their assessment goals.
This workshop introduces foundational concepts in performance-based assessment, focusing on how educators can structure and evaluate these assessments to support learning, progression, and decision-making while minimizing validity threats.
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Dissect performance-based assessments into component parts, linking each to potential validity threats
- Apply key validity concepts to improve the structure of performance-based assessments
- Critically examine and evaluate their own performance-based assessment plans for clinical competence
Who would benefit most from this workshop?
This workshop is for health profession educators who are interested in understanding, structuring and critically examining performance-based assessment of clinical competence. No previous experience in studying assessment is required, but some experience with either participating in or planning performance-based assessments will assist in examining issues and applying concepts.
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