Introducing a practical guide to sequential testing: Realising educational and economic benefits

Date: 4 Jul 2014
Start Time: 10:00 am
Location/venue: Leeds Institute of Medical Education, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, LEEDS, UK, LS2 9JT
Institutions have conflicting pressures of quality, feasibility and cost in the assessment of students. Students desire fair assessment processes ideally completed by all in a single academic year.This usually takes the format of assessment of the whole student cohort, followed by a period of remediation and retesting for those who underperform. However, underperforming candidates are not a homogenous group and considerable difficulty persists in accurately identifying and profiling these ‘at risk’ students. Provisional programme for the day. More...