Assessing Competence in Professional Performance across Disciplines and Professions

This book examines the challenges of cross-professional comparisons and proposes new forms of performance assessment to be used in professions education. It addresses how complex issues are learned and assessed across and within different disciplines and professions in order to move the process of “...

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Other Authors: Wimmers, Paul F. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Mentkowski, Marcia. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Innovation and Change in Professional Education, 13
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30064-1
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword; Lee S. Shulman
  • 1. Introduction; Marcia Mentkowski and Paul F. Wimmers
  • 2. Conceptual Elements for Performance Assessment for Faculty and Student Learning; Marcia Mentkowski, Mary E. Diez, Dena Lieberman, Desiree Pointer Mace, Margaret Rauschenberger, and Jeana Abromeit
  • 3. Improving the Integration of Performance Assessments within the Curriculum Across the Professions; Ilene Harris
  • 4. Beyond Authenticity: What Should We Value in Assessment in Professional Education?; Chris O’Neal
  • 5. Assessing Performance in Engineering Education: Examples Across Fifty Years of Practice; John Heywood
  • 6. Instruction and Assessment of Competencies: Two Sides of the Same Coin; Paul F. Wimmers, Lourdes R. Guerrero, and Susan Baillie
  • 7. Performance Assessment in Legal Education; Erika Abner and Shelley Kierstead
  • 8. Assessing Student Learning Outcomes Across a Curriculum; Marcia Mentkowski, Jeana Abromeit, Heather Mernitz, Kelly Talley, Catherine Knuteson, William Rickards, Lois Kailhofer, Jill Haberman, and Suzanne Mente
  • 9. Assessing Across Domains of Study: Issues in Interdisciplinary Assessment; Mark Russell, Anne McKee, and Michele Russell-Westhead
  • 10. Thinking Critically About the Quality of Critical Thinking Definitions and Measures; Lily Fountain
  • 11. Understanding the Assessment of Clinical Reasoning; Joseph Rencic, Steven Durning, Eric Holmboe and Larry D. Gruppen
  • 12. Assessment of Interprofessional Education: Key Issues, Ideas, Challenges and Opportunities; Brian Simmons, Susan J. Wagner and Scott Reeves
  • 13. Incorporating Groupwork into Performance Assessments: Psychometric Issues; Noreen M. Webb
  • 14. Evaluating Team Performance: A Systematic Review; Danette W. McKinley
  • 15. Developing and Assessing Teams Working Collaboratively Across Professions; Anne McKee
  • 16. Faculty Development in Assessment: What the Faculty Need to Know and Do; Ara Tekian and John J. Norcini
  • 17. Performance Assessment in Faculty Development Programs: Value of Action Research in Leadership Training; Ming Lee, Ronald Cohn, Jodi Cohn and Dan Osterweil
  • 18. Assessing Competence in Medical Humanism: Development and Validation of the ICARE Scale for Assessing Humanistic Patient Care; Ming Lee, Paul F. Wimmers and Cha Chi Fung
  • 19. Evaluating the Paradigm Shift from Time-Based Toward Competency-Based Medical Education: Implications for Curriculum and Assessment; Yoon Soo Park, Brian Hodges and Ara Tekian
  • 20. Assessment Challenges in Creating the Uniform Bar Examination: Politics, Practicality, and Psychometrics
  • Douglas R. Ripkey and Joanne Kane
  • 21. Summary and Conclusions; Paul F. Wimmers and Marcia Mentkowski.