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Daring to be fallible: Reflections on culture, context and validity in programmatic assessment

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Central to its developmental purpose is feedback, and effective feedback is itself deeply relational.10 The challenge for PA therefore is not just designing better assessments or accumulating better evidence but attending to the environment and the culture through which students dare to show authentic behaviour and building the trustworthy relationships that allow evidence to acquire meaning.Validity, implementation and sustainability are not identical concerns, but they intersect through assessment culture and context.Understanding those intersections may help ensure that PA remains not only a defensible system for making judgements about clinical reasoning but also a system capable of fulfilling its foundational promise of assessment for learning.

Source: Medical Education

DOI: 10.1111/medu.70344

Authors: Ligia M. Cayres Ribeiro, Jelle W. Meerstra, Dario M. Torre

Institutions: University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Erasmus MC, University of Turin

Language: English

Topic: Innovations in Medical Education

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $5,250