Teaching methods

Question 1

Criterion-referenced standard setting

Answer 1

Pass mark is based on predefined reference points or criteria

Question 2

Norm-referenced standard setting

Answer 2

Assessors set a pass mark based on the performance of learners who have taken the same assessment previously
Designed to compare and rank test takers in relation to one another.

Question 3

Transformative learning

Answer 3

Moment when the trainee has ‘seen the light’ and understood the length, breadth and depth of the concepts behind the subjects and has, in some way, been transformed into a different adult learner

Question 4

Validity

Answer 4

Validity is, more or less, defined by the syllabus or curriculum, current standards of practice

Question 5

Summative assessment

Answer 5

measure the outcome of an educational outcome

Question 6

Equating

Answer 6

adjustment of test scores so that the populations of two or more forms of a test are comparable.

Question 7

Appraisal

Answer 7

Performance review and may utilise several tools to provide evidence of past achievement

Question 8

Snowballing

Answer 8

Discussion may be very basic and unstructured at first but then becomes more intense

Question 9

Simple procedure hieracrchy

Answer 9

Shown how to do something

Question 10

Complex proecural hierarchy

Answer 10

Hierarchy is involved which develops over several encounters and over a significant time span

Question 11

Schema refinement

Answer 11

learners are encouraged to apply basic concepts, clarify their understanding and solve clinical problems

Question 12

1 minute preceptor

Answer 12

Five-step process that can be carried out in minutes with the purpose of structuring teaching opportunities that arise in the clinical environment
1. commitment
2. justification
3. application
4. positive reinforcement
5. correction of mistakes