Workplace-based assessment as an educational tool: Guide Supplement 31.4 - review.

摘要

In the UK we are approaching completion of the third year of new postgraduate Specialty Training programmes, most of which include a variety of workplace-based assessments (WPBA). This therefore seems an opportune time to review the AMEE Guide: Workplace-based assessment as an educational tool (Norcini & Burch 2007). The Guide sets out its stall to demonstrate the value of WPBA in its ability to enhance learning. WPBA achieves this by aligning assessments and required competencies, providing feedback to learners, and helping to guide individuals towards desired performance. The difficulty of using WPBA to make summative judgements is acknowledged (one of the main challenges of WPBA in UK postgraduate training), and the Guide therefore concentrates on WPBA as a formative method.