Benchmarking by cross-institutional comparison of student achievement in a progress test

Medical Education
A MuijtjensC van der Vleuten

Abstract

To determine the effectiveness of single-point benchmarking and longitudinal benchmarking for inter-school educational evaluation. We carried out a mixed, longitudinal, cross-sectional study using data from 24 annual measurement moments (4 tests x 6 year groups) over 4 years for 4 annual progress tests assessing the graduation-level knowledge of all students from 3 co-operating medical schools. Participants included undergraduate medical students (about 5000) from 3 medical schools. The main outcome measures involved between-school comparisons of progress test results based on different benchmarking methods. Variations in relative school performance across different tests and year groups indicate instability and low reliability of single-point benchmarking, which is subject to distortions as a result of school-test and year group-test interaction effects. Deviations of school means from the overall mean follow an irregular, noisy pattern obscuring systematic between-school differences. The longitudinal benchmarking method results in suppression of noise and revelation of systematic differences. The pattern of a school's cumulative deviations per year group gives a credible reflection of the relative performance of year groups. ...Continue Reading

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Jun 28, 2012·Advances in Health Sciences Education : Theory and Practice·M Heijne-PenningaJ Cohen-Schotanus
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