Assessment: A Retrospective

In honour of the ICE blog’s 5-year anniversary, we continue our look back at some of our most popular and influential series. This week we continue with “Assessment.”

Our first piece on “Assessment” was posted on October 1st, 2013, just one week after the ICE blog was launched. As recently described by Dr. Jason Frank in KeyLIME podcast 194, “Assessment has always been the sexier older sibling to other major aspects of meded, such as curriculum.”

There’s no doubt that assessment has always been a critical conversation and has become even more of a hot topic with the rise of CBME. Over the past 5 years our contributors have:

• Reviewed the top assessment literature
• Discussed the concept of validity in assessment
• Explored the relationship between CBME and behaviourism
• Talked at length about workplace-based assessment and observation

From our very first to our very latest, here are our posts about “Assessment”:

• Assessment Literature from the last 12 months) that every CB Should Read: Part 1
• Assessment Literature from the last 12 months) that every CB Should Read: Part 2
• Assessment in Medical Education: Finding the Signal in the Noise
• Validity (Ugh) & Assessing Learners: It’s more than Psychometrics
• Direct Observation of Clinical Skills: We Need to Improve Quantity and Quality
• A Practical Tip for Direct Observation – It’s Not Always One-on-One
• The (Disputed) Key Assessment Papers in 2014
• Practical Wisdom: Developing Confidence in Complex Situations
• Work-Based Assessment Programs for #MedEd: Part 1
• Work-Based Assessment Programs for #MedEd: Part 2
• The (Disputed) Top Assessment Papers in #MedEd via #ICRE2015
• Understanding the Interaction of the “Truths” of Validity in #MedEd Studies: Part 1
• Understanding the Interaction of the “Truths” of Validity in #MedEd Studies: Part 2
• #KeyLIMEPodcast 154: Using In-Training Evaluation Report (ITER) Qualitative Comments to Assess Medical Students and Residents: A Systematic Review
• Learning-Performance Distinction: Implications for Assessment and CBME
• KeyLIME Podcast #194: Society Matters: Rethinking the Validity of Assessment in MedEd

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