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| rdf:type | |
| lifeskim:mentions | |
| pubmed:issue |
3
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| pubmed:dateCreated |
1989-4-4
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| pubmed:abstractText |
Inter-rater agreement in assigning grades using five different grading systems was determined. The performance of 16 students in a surgery clerkship was rated by 21 faculty raters using a pass-fail grading system, a pass-fail-honors system, a letter grade system, a number grade scale from 1 to 10, and a number grade scale from 1 to 100. Inter-rater agreement coefficients were used to assess relative and absolute reliabilities, respectively. Both the letter grade and 1 to 10 number grade systems provided good discrimination, had high to moderate reliability, and required only five raters to achieve a mean rating with the commonly recommended reliability of 0.80. Using the letter grade system, however, a majority of raters agreed on a specific grade assignment for 14 of 16 students, in contrast to the 1 to 10 scale, for which this was true for only 4 of 16 students. The results of this reliability study favor the use of a letter grading system.
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| pubmed:language |
eng
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| pubmed:journal | |
| pubmed:citationSubset |
AIM
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| pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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| pubmed:month |
Mar
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| pubmed:issn |
0002-9610
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| pubmed:author | |
| pubmed:issnType |
Print
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| pubmed:volume |
157
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| pubmed:owner |
NLM
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| pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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| pubmed:pagination |
346-9
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| pubmed:dateRevised |
2008-11-21
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| pubmed:meshHeading | |
| pubmed:year |
1989
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| pubmed:articleTitle |
Reliability of different grading systems used in evaluating surgical students.
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| pubmed:affiliation |
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield 62708.
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| pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article
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