Assessment in Medical Education II: Detailed exposition

Abstract

  In this manuscript, several approaches and methods of assessment based on Miller’s pyramid of competence are demonstrated.
●Deliberate assessment and its planning regulate a learner’s approach to learning and drives learning.
●In the design and conduct of assessments, the educational effect and the effect on learning should be taken into account.
● While knowing does not necessarily guarantee competence, competence does not necessarily guarantee knowing.
●It is important to design and perform an informative, continuing, comprehensive programmed assessment to maximize the benefits of outcome-based education.
●The importance of assessment should be understood by the members of an institution, and the assessment must be feasible with regards to the available educational resources.