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Review the educational rationale, technical mechanisms, and inherent trade-offs of computerized adaptive testing applied to medical education programmes.

October 24, 2023SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaOpen Access

A narrative review of adaptive testing and its application to medical education

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Review the educational rationale, technical mechanisms, and inherent trade-offs of computerized adaptive testing applied to medical education programmes.
Synthesized literature on computer-based adaptive testing paradigms, specifically systems adapting by item difficulty versus those adapting by curricular content.
Evaluated structural requirements, psychometric trade-offs, item banking demands, and candidate perceptions of test fairness in summative assessment environments.
Adapting by difficulty provides more reliable candidate ability estimates but requires unidirectional navigation and reduces grading transparency.
Adapting by content facilitates targeted individual remediation and ensures baseline competence across all domain outcomes, though it restricts exploratory learning.
Both adaptive models depend on large, quality-assured item banks and address standard examination flaws where fixed-question sets fail to equitably evaluate differing candidate abilities.

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Narrative review explores the utility and trade-offs of adaptive testing in medical education, highlighting its role in personalizing assessment and curriculum design.

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Burr et al. (2023) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d8c99d2c39562886ae2b44 https://doi.org/10.12688/mep.19844.1

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Narrative review explores the utility and trade-offs of adaptive testing in medical education, highlighting its role in personalizing assessment and curriculum design.

A narrative review of adaptive testing and its application to medical education

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