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Student peer assessment in evidence-based medicine (EBM) searching skills training: an experiment
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Medical Library Association, 2013.
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Abstract
- Student peer assessment (SPA) has been used intermittently in medical education for more than four decades, particularly in connection with skills training. SPA generally has not been rigorously tested, so medical educators have limited evidence about SPA effectiveness.Seventy-one first-year medical students were stratified by previous test scores into problem-based learning tutorial groups, and then these assigned groups were randomized further into intervention and control groups. All students received evidence-based medicine (EBM) training. Only the intervention group members received SPA training, practice with assessment rubrics, and then application of anonymous SPA to assignments submitted by other members of the intervention group.Students in the intervention group had higher mean scores on the formative test with a potential maximum score of 49 points than did students in the control group, 45.7 and 43.5, respectively (P = 0.06).SPA training and the application of these skills by the intervention group resulted in higher scores on formative tests compared to those in the control group, a difference approaching statistical significance. The extra effort expended by librarians, other personnel, and medical students must be factored into the decision to use SPA in any specific educational context.SPA has not been rigorously tested, particularly in medical education. Future, similarly rigorous studies could further validate use of SPA so that librarians can optimally make use of limited contact time for information skills training in medical school curricula.
- Subjects :
- musculoskeletal diseases
Paper
Adult
Male
Educational measurement
Students, Medical
education
Information Seeking Behavior
Health Informatics
Library and Information Sciences
Peer Group
Skills training
Young Adult
Nursing
Information seeking behavior
Medicine
Humans
Limited evidence
Students medical
Medical education
Evidence-Based Medicine
Education, Medical
business.industry
Peer group
Evidence-based medicine
stomatognathic diseases
Peer assessment
Female
Educational Measurement
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ea0bd7a0c7a70a2c6d740206e7afad7e