This document discusses different types of assessments used in education including diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments. It summarizes research showing that self-assessment skills can improve with practice and that self-assessment ability explains a portion of students' improved exam scores. The document also discusses the limitations of using summative assessments and pre-admission criteria to predict future performance, and notes that clinical experience may be the best predictor of success.

1. Accreditation standards Don Curtis, UCSF Self-study as an institutional self-assessment Goals to assess his or her own performance Graduates must be competent in self-assessment Assessments at all levels of the academic enterprise and self-assessment

4. Types of Formative Assessments Peer assessments Self-assessments Portfolio

7. Self-assessment Ultimate outcome of higher education is for students to develop as independent learners and a defining characteristic of independent learners is accuracy in self-assessment. Assessment in Higher Education, Cassidy, 2007

8. Self-assessment articles 0 20 40 60 80 1985 1995 2005 year number of articles Pub Med Eric Education Full Text

10. Study design Entire process repeated 5 weeks later 77 students Complete 3 hr exam Complete 1 hr self-assessment Faculty grading

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