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Table 5 Negative and positive elements of students’ and teachers’ feedback (question 21)

From: Script concordance test acceptability and utility for assessing medical students’ clinical reasoning: a user’s survey and an institutional prospective evaluation of students’ scores

 

Students’ feedbacks

N (%)

Positive points

SCT are adapted to graduate medical students

9 (10%)

SCT are adapted to post-graduate medical students

7 (8%)

SCT are adapted to doctors for continuing medical education

4 (4.5%)

The principle of SCT is excellent

1 (1%)

SCT are discriminant

1 (1%)

Positive/Negative points

SCT are interesting in theory but not in practice

21 (24%)

Negative points

Too high variability between experts ‘responses

27 (30.5%)

SCT are too ambiguous, not clear enough

22 (24%)

SCT are not adapted to graduate medical students

13 (15%)

Inadequacy is felt between obtained scores and skills / knowledge

9 (10%)

insufficient students preparation

8 (7%)

SCT are useless

6 (6.5%)

SCT are confusing

4 (4.5%)

SCT are too subjective

4 (4.5%)

Frustrating because no possibility to justify one’s answer

3 (3.5%)

The principle of SCT is bad

3 (3.5%)

SCT are too difficult

3 (3.5%)

Inadequacy is felt between SCT experts answers and national referential about the subject

2 (2%)

Lack of detailed correction

1 (1%)

SCT are not discriminant

1 (1%)

 

Teachers’ feedbacks

N (%)

Positive points

SCT are adapted to post-graduate medical students

1 (9%)

Positive/Negative points

SCT need to be developed

1 (9%)

SCT are useful only once knowledge is acquired

1 (9%)

Negative points

Difficult to write questions

3 (27%)

SCT are not satisfying

2 (18%)

Too high variability between experts ‘responses

1 (9%)

SCT are too ambiguous, not clear enough

1 (9%)

SCT are not adapted to graduate medical students

1 (9%)

Difficult to recruit a sufficient number of experts

1 (9%)

SCT are confusing

1 (9%)

SCT prevent students from good medical reasoning

1 (9%)

  1. Results are expressed in number of students and percentage of the responding students (n = 88) and teachers (n = 11)