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The use of global ratings in OSCE station scores

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The Medical Council of Canada makes use of examiners' pass/borderline/fail judgments of candidates' performances in OSCE stations in defining cutting scores for these stations. This process assumes that there is consistency in the judgments of different examiners used in the same stations at different testing sites. This assumption was tested using the results of the fall 1994 administration of part 2 of the Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Examination. The Council anticipated using the examiner based global ratings as part of the OSCE station scores in the fall 1995 administration of the examination. In this study, the fall 1994 results were used to estimate to what extent test reliability would increase with the addition of the global ratings.

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  1. Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, 585 University Avenue, BW4-658, M5G 2C4, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Arthur I. Rothman

  2. The Medical Council of Canada, 2283 St. Laurent Blvd., K1G 3H7, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    David Blackmore & W. Dale Dauphinee

  3. Department of Surgery, The Toronto Hospital - General Division, 200 Elizabeth Street, E9-242, M5G 2C4, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Richard Reznick

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This research was done with the support of the Medical Council of Canada

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Rothman, A.I., Blackmore, D., Dauphinee, W.D. et al. The use of global ratings in OSCE station scores. Adv Health Sci Educ 1, 215–219 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00162918

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