This preliminary study explored the level of plagiarism awareness among Malaysian undergraduates when carrying out their summative assessment. In field language assessment, assessment in form graded task is regarded as an effective tool to exercise change it could highly influence teaching and learning. However, concern regarding students’ behaviour increasing despite exposure given them by res...

A summative assessment of quantum computing's progress, based on market readiness and investment levels, its future implications.

Introduction: MCQs in one of popular test item educational institution a short time, large part curriculum. It is an effective tool for student assessment as well providing guidelines to teachers. Objectives: Our study objectives were analyze the quality and identify low scorers learning difficulties. Standardization required only after analysis. Material Methods: The desig...

BACKGROUND The Script Concordance Test (SCT) has not been reported in summative assessment of students across the multiple domains of a medical curriculum. We report the steps used to build a test for summative assessment in a medical curriculum. METHODS A 51 case, 158-question, multidisciplinary paper was constructed to assess clinical reasoning in 5th-year. 10-16 experts in each of 7 discip...

OBJECTIVES The introduction of competency-based training has necessitated development and implementation of accompanying mechanisms for assessment. Procedure-based assessments (PBAs) are an example of workplace-based assessments that are used to examine focal competencies in the workplace. The primary objective was to understand surgical trainees' perspective on the value of PBA. DESIGN Semis...

In a previous study (1) of online formative assessment in a medical school, I reported that scores on unsupervised online quizzes were predictive of outcomes on summative examinations. However, when no credit was assigned to the practice quizzes, the student participation rate was disappointing, at 50–60%. The lack of engagement in quizzes was found to be associated with significantly lower per...

BACKGROUND General practice registrars are now required to undertake a summative assessment of their consulting skills. Simulated surgeries have been developed as an alternative to the existing method of assessing video-recorded consultations. AIM To evaluate the simulated surgery assessment method, developed in the General Practice Postgraduate Education Department in Leicester, for use in a...