Journal of dental education
-
Comparative Study
Checklist agreement between standardized patients and faculty.
The agreement between standardized patients' (SPs) and faculty in scoring student performance is an important component in determining the accuracy of SP assessment scores. For this study, checklist scores completed by SPs were compared to checklists completed by faculty. The SPs completed the checklists immediately following each SP-student interaction. ⋯ Agreement between SPs and faculty was good especially in later cases. Discrepancies were most often due to SPs assigning credit when the faculty did not. This study supports the use of SPs as accurate, relatively inexpensive, and feasible recorders of student performance for selected skills.