Assessing Competency Flashcards
Individual self
Unique skills around you as the person
Relational self
Shared relationship such as spouse, romantic partners, family and friends
Collective self
Membership in a collective group such as coworkers, classmates, community, organizations
Competence
The ability to do something successfully or efficiently
Assessment
The action of an instance of evaluating or estimating the nature, ability or quality of something
Parts of self assessment
Introspection
Identity
Personality type
Value and skills
Strengths and weakness
Fluency illusion
Easy to recall now so will be easy to recall later
Low level of engagement and is a self-assessment pitfall
Social influence
Ambiguity in memory replaced by falsely recalled facts by others
Self-assessment pitfall
False-consensus effect
People falsely believe that if they preformed so well that others must have also.
Leads to people underestimating their comparative abilities but not absolute abilities
Self-assessment pitfall
Dunning and Kruger affect
People who lack skills to produce correct answers will also lack the ability to recognize when answers are right or wrong
- and vise versa*
Increased education and metacognition reduce this effect and increase self-assessment of competency
Ways to assess competence
Low stakes quizzes
Cumulative quizzes
Integrated mental model
Dynamic testing
Ways to increase competence
Employing Active learning strategies
Distill underlying principles
Build a framework holding central ideas together
Difficult is good so things shouldn’t be overly easy
Seek or out feedback
Kaizen
“Continuous improvement” in Japanese
Make self-evaluation a habit in the context of medicine
Use information about yourself as a tool for improvement and remember limitations of judgements in self assessment
