Abstract

PINHEIRO, CARLOS EDUARDO ANDRADE  and  SOUZA, DIOGO ONOFRE DE. LONGITUDINAL ASSESSMENT OF MEDICAL STUDENTS: IS PROGRESS TEST APPROPRIATE?. Est. Aval. Educ. [online]. 2023, vol.34, e09220.  Epub Sep 21, 2023. ISSN 1984-932X.  https://doi.org/10.18222/eae.v34.9220_port.

The purpose of this article is to assess whether the Progress Test is appropriate to evaluate programs and students during different stages of medical studies. The characteristics of the items and reliability of three previously applied progress tests were analyzed. For second-year students, 76.4% of the questions demonstrated poor quality (biserial < 0.2). This percentage decreased to 47.7% in the fourth year and to 25.3% in the sixth year. The test’s reliability, measured by Cronbach’s alpha, was only 0.60 for second year students and increased to 0.76 in the fourth year and to 0.87 for sixth-year students. The current form of the Progress Test showed low and unacceptable reliability for second-year students, reasonable for the fourth year, and excellent for the sixth year. An improvement of this longitudinal assessment is proposed.

Keywords : EDUCATION EVALUATION; MEDICAL EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EXTERNAL EVALUATION..

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