Assessment refers to any formal process used to evaluate a student's level of achievement or progress against defined criteria. It is important in medical education to provide feedback to students, teachers, and the entire system. The principles of good assessment include being valid, reliable, transparent, relevant, feasible, equitable, ongoing, and motivating with feedback. Formative assessment monitors student learning and provides ongoing feedback to improve teaching and learning, while summative assessment evaluates competency at the end of a course. Continuous internal assessment ideally takes place during instruction through unplanned methods to provide structured feedback without marks or grades. However, in practice internal assessment in our system includes semester exams and marks, contradicting the concept of formative assessment.

1. Dr Hironmoy Roy
Assessment- Introduction, FA, IA

2. • Assessment is systematic procedure for
measuring a trainee’s progress or level of
achievement against defined criteria to make a
judgment about a trainee
4/5/2017

3. Is it important in MES?
 “A student can, with difficulty, escape from the
effect of poor teaching; but, he cannot escape
from the effect of poor assessment (if he likes
to graduate).”
-Boud D, 1998

4. 6
Dynamics of an Educational Program
Define
objectives
Plan for
assessmen
t
Develop
Inputs
process
Implement
programme
Evaluate
output
Feedback

5. Session’s objectives
right• To sensitize regarding need for
assessment methods
• To help in choosing right
assessment methods for given:
Learning Objectives & Competencies

6. • Assessment
•
refers to any formal or purported action/task to
obtain information about the competence and
performance of a student.
Term: used in context of students
•Evaluation
• on the otherhand , it means passing a value
judgment on the quality or worth
Term:Used in context of educational
Assessment Vs Evaluation

7. Why do we need to
assess
medical students?
We are certifying students fit
for dealingwith human
lives

8. • How Assessment helps us?
 It gives “Feedback” to students (where are
they?), to teachers (where are we?), to the
entire medical education system (How far to
go?)
 It is a guideline for Quality Assurance in ME

9. Validity
Reliability
Transparent
Relevant
Doable
Principles of Assessment
It measures what it
intends to measure
It gives same result
whenever repeated
The process of
assessment is clearly
understood to all
stakeholders
The process of
assessment is relevant in
today’s context
The process of
assessment is do-able in
present infrastructure

10. Principles of Assessment
Equitable
Ongoing like a “cine-film”
Motivating
&
Must carry
“Feedback”
Same for all
Continuous throughout
the term
Shall provide motivation
for learning to the
students

11. Miller’s pyramid for clinical competence

12. The assessment of cognition dealswith
knowledge and itsapplication
• knows
• knows how

13. The assessment of behaviour dealswith
• assessment of competence under
controlled
conditions(showshow)
• assessment of competence in practice or the

14. Types
 Summative Assessment
 Formative Assessment
 Continuous Internal Assessment (CIA)

15. Summative Assessment
 End-term examination, that takes into
consideration of skills & knowledge
acquired during entire course. Like.
University Prof Exams
OF

16. Formative Assessment
 Monitor students’ learning and provides
ongoing feedback
 Feedback applicable to the
Teacher/Student as well as the teaching-
learning process
 No pass/fail system
 No marking/gradation- IDEAL
FOR

17. Points Formative Summative
What Assessment for
learning
Assessment of
learning
Purpose Improve teaching &
learning
Assessment of
competency
When Ongoing At the end of
course
How used
by S
Learn thru feedback &
practice
Grades

18. Formative
Assessment
Summative
Assessment

19. What FA
is
 It is a PLANNED process.
 It is used by both teachers & students
 Takes place DURING instruction.
 It provides assessment-based feedback to both
teachers & students.
 It helps teachers & students make adjustments
that will improve student achievement.

20. What it is NOT
 It is not a graded test.
 It is not a part of the grading system.
 It is not just probing and charting.
 It is not random observations.
 It is not just good instruction.
Feedback=the promise of FA

21. Continuous Internal Assessment
 Takes place DURING instruction
 Unplanned
 Unstructured
 Carried on at any day, any time, any where
 No marks, no grades
 Structured Feedback

22. Assessment in our system
What actually happens
Professional Exams, are
the Ending Exam for a
Subject. Marking is there.
No scope of feedback
Summative
Assessment

23. Assessment in our system
What actually happens
Out of the Total marks of
Prof Exam, 20% marks is
from “Internal
Assessment”.
50% of IA marks comes
from Semester Exams.
50% of IA marks comes
from CIA.
As there is “marking
system” it contradicts
the concept of FA.