Grading reflective essays: the reliability of a newly developed tool- GRE-9

The main objective of this study is the development of a short reliable easy-to-use assessment tool in the aim of providing feedback to the reflective writings of medical students and residents. This study took place in a major tertiary academic medical center in Beirut, Lebanon. Seventy-seven refle...

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Published in:BMC medical education 2020-09, Vol.20 (1), p.331-331, Article 331
Main Authors: Makarem, Nisrine N, Saab, Basem R, Maalouf, Grace, Musharafieh, Umayya, Naji, Fadila, Rahme, Diana, Brome, Dayana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Allied Health Occupations Education
Clinical competence
Coding
Communication
Curricula
Curriculum Development
Educational Measurement
Essays
Family medicine
Feedback
Formative Evaluation
Grading
Grading tools
Humans
Independent study
Interrater Reliability
Item Analysis
Lebanon
Literature reviews
Medical centers
Medical education
Medical schools
Medical students
Performance Based Assessment
Psychometrics
Reference Materials
Reflection
Reflective articles
Reflective practice
Reflective Teaching
Reflective writing
Reproducibility of Results
Students
Teachers
Teaching Methods
Technical Advance
Writing
Writing Evaluation
Writing Exercises
Writing Tests
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Summary:The main objective of this study is the development of a short reliable easy-to-use assessment tool in the aim of providing feedback to the reflective writings of medical students and residents. This study took place in a major tertiary academic medical center in Beirut, Lebanon. Seventy-seven reflective essays written by 18 residents in the department of Family Medicine at the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) were graded by 3 raters using the newly developed scale to assess the scale reliability. Following a comprehensive search and analysis of the literature, and based on their experience in reflective grading, the authors developed a concise 9-item scale to grade reflective essays through repeated cycles of development and analysis as well as the determination of the inter-rater reliability (IRR) using intra-class correlation coefficients (ICC) and Krippendorff's Alpha. The inter-rater reliability of the new scale ranges from moderate to substantial with ICC of 0.78, 95% CI 0.64-0.86, p 
ISSN:1472-6920
1472-6920
DOI:10.1186/s12909-020-02213-2