“Assessment is an essential part of learning. It has the potential to show whether learning has taken place, and to direct the nature and content of learning. Learners make their learning choices paying careful attention to their upcoming assessments. They can also learn from the assessment experience and the assessment outcome. Thus, assessments can be designed to support learning in several ways: to plan learning (assessment for learning), to promote learning (assessment as learning), or to test learning (assessment of learning).”
(p.253, Delaney & Molloy, 2018).
Videos
Resources
Books
Clinical education in the health professions
C. Delany & E. Molloy (Eds.), (2009) Clinical education in the health professions. Elsevier.
- Chapter 9 - Dalton, M., Davidson, M., & Keating, J. Assessment in clinical education. (pp. 147–172)
Learning and Teaching in Clinical Contexts
Delany, C., & Molloy, E. (2018). Assessment for learning in the workplace. In Learning and Teaching in Clinical Contexts. Elsevier.
- Chapter 17 – Identifying and Working with Underperformance
- Chapter 18 – Workplace-based Assessment
- Chapter 19 – Ensuring assessment builds capacity for future clinical practice – Sustainable assessment in action
Articles
- Boud, D., & Walker, D. (1990). Making the most of experience. Studies in Continuing Education, 12 (2), 61–80.
- Crossley, J., Humphris, G., & Jolly, B. (2002). Assessing health professionals. Medical Education, 36 (9), 800–804.
- Fitch, C., Malik, A., Lelliott, P., Bhugra, D., & Andiappan, M. (2008). Assessing psychiatric competencies: what does the literature tell us about methods of workplace-based assessment? Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 14 (2), 122–130.
- Franklin, N., & Melville, P. (2015). Competency assessment tools: An exploration of the pedagogical issues facing competency assessment for nurses in the clinical environment. Collegian (Royal College of Nursing, Australia), 22 (1), 25–31.
- Lawrence, K. A., Taylor, K., Cairns, R., Gersh, H., & McKay, A. (2024). Tracking trainee development: preliminary validation of a tool designed to evaluate clinical psychology competencies over time. Australian Psychologist, 59 (4), 329–340.
- Miller, G. E. (1990). The assessment of clinical skills/competence/performance. Academic Medicine, 65 (9 Suppl), S63-7. Available online at https://winbev.pbworks.com/f/Assessment.pdf
- Norcini, J., & Burch, V. (2007). Workplace-based assessment as an educational tool: AMEE Guide No. 31. Medical Teacher, 29 (9–10), 855–871.