• Acad Med · Feb 1998

    The reliability of six faculty members in identifying important OSCE items.

    • J Valentino, M B Donnelly, D A Sloan, R W Schwartz, and R C Haydon.
    • Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, USA. jvale00@pop.uky.edu
    • Acad Med. 1998 Feb 1; 73 (2): 204-5.

    PurposeTo measure the agreement among faculty members about the importance of items on a checklist used to grade an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) station.MethodsSix faculty members rated the importance of 47 items for an OSCE station in which students took the history of a patient with sore throat and hoarseness.ResultsOf the 47 items, the raters independently identified 15 items as very important. The reliability of each individual rater was fair (averaged value of alpha = .63.) The reliability of the mean rating of the six raters was high (alpha = .91).ConclusionsThe results strongly suggest that when a group of faculty members cooperatively identifies the important items to be included in an OSCE checklist, the reliability of the checklist is superior to one created by a single author.

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