Inflated Clinical Evaluations: a Comparison of Faculty-Selected and Mathematically Calculated Overall Evaluations Based on Behaviorally Anchored Assessment Data.
Eric G MeyerKelly L CozzaRiley M R KonaraDerrick HamaokaJames C WestPublished in: Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry (2018)
Clerkship clinical evaluation forms that require faculty to make an overall evaluation generate results that are significantly higher than what would have been assigned solely using behavioral anchored assessment questions. Focusing faculty attention on assessing specific behaviors rather than overall evaluations may reduce this inflation and improve validity. Clerkships may want to consider removing overall evaluation questions from their clinical evaluation tools.