The Reliability of Medical Student Ratings of Clinical Teaching

This study estimated the interrater reliability of medical student evaluations of clinical teaching. Data consisted of 1,570 ratings evaluating 147faculty over a 4-year period in a 3rd-year internal medicine clerkship. The number of ratings a typical faculty member receives in a year was also calcul...

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Published in:Evaluation & the health professions 1997-09, Vol.20 (3), p.343-352
Main Authors: Solomon, David J., Speer, Alice J., Rosebraugh, Curtis J., DiPette, Donald J.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Clinical Clerkship
Clinical education
Clinical Teaching (Health Professions)
Evaluation Studies as Topic
Faculty Evaluation
Faculty, Medical
Health technology assessment
Humans
Internal Medicine
Medical schools
Medical students
Professional Competence
Ratings
Reliability
Reproducibility of Results
Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance
Students
Students, Medical - psychology
Teaching
Teaching - standards
USA
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Summary:This study estimated the interrater reliability of medical student evaluations of clinical teaching. Data consisted of 1,570 ratings evaluating 147faculty over a 4-year period in a 3rd-year internal medicine clerkship. The number of ratings a typical faculty member receives in a year was also calculated and used to extrapolate the standard error of measurementfor data typically available to evaluatefaculty at different time intervals. The data available to evaluate afaculty member after I year was not adequate, but improved substantially at the 5-to 7-yearmark when a faculty member is typically evaluated for promotion and tenure.
ISSN:0163-2787
1552-3918
DOI:10.1177/016327879702000306