OSPE- AN UNBIASED TOOL FOR EVALUATION OF STUDENTS – OUR STUDY
Journal Title: Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences - Year 2015, Vol 4, Issue 32
Abstract
[b] BACKGROUND[/b]: Evaluation of students at any level is done with an idea of assessing their ability to interpret data, solve problems, teach and communicate. Any attempt to do this in the old fashioned random method will lead to several variations without giving students their due in a fair and deserving manner. One of such disparity is inter and intra examiner variability which is not stressed while conducting examinations especially practical and viva voce. Our study shows how OSPE eliminates this little noted but major disparity to a great extent. [b]MATERIAL AND METHODS[/b]: The study was conducted in the Hematology Laboratory, Department of Physiology, Gandhi Medical College, over a period of 2 days. 60 first year physiology students were given the task of performing hemoglobin estimation by Sahli-Adam method. Each student was given 10 minutes at the procedure station to complete his experiment, following which he was subjected to practical viva examination at the response station. First he was evaluated by two different examiners separately by traditional method and awarded marks. Then he was subjected to OSPE by both examiners separately where in each examiner asked questions from a preformed questionnaire with the questions carrying fixed marks. [b]RESULTS[/b]: The data was fed in excel sheet and the standard deviations and p values calculated. In 59 students there was no disparity when OSPE was followed while there was inter examiner disparity in all 60 students when traditional method was followed in evaluation. [b]CONCLUSION[/b]: OSPE is objective and evaluates students in a structured manner and is a standardized and excellent procedure for excluding several disparities, one of them being inter examiner variability, apparently a minor factor, but a major where fair and uniformity of evaluation is taken into consideration.
Authors and Affiliations
Padmini O, Kali Vara Vadlamani, Rama Devi M
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