Factors affecting decision making stages during the assessment of students clinical performance, a cognitive approach

Title : Factors affecting decision making stages during the assessment of students clinical performance, a cognitive approach

Abstract:

This presentation sheds a light on assessment practices in clinical Settings and focuses on assessors’ modulation of the whole cognitive process. The argument involves discussing critical thinking of assessors before, during, and after the event of assessment. Then, it analyzes a cognitive approach of assessment implied by assessors during students’ performance. Further, it proposes a model with step-by-step approach in decision-making along with different factors, which may strongly influence final grades. Four mainstages were identified for the purpose of analysis, such as pre-decision, driver, primary decision, and communication stages. Possible factors related to the assessment and assessors’ cognition that derived from literature were discussed in terms of the influence on the final decision towards more stringent or lenient decisions, following a temporal sequence for the proposed model events. Finally, both primary and secondary factors involved in each stage were presented. 

Biography:

Dr. Ayman is a general dentist who studied health professional education at the University of Western Australia, Australia as Masters in 2013. Then continue his job as lecturer of dental education at Taibah University, Saudi Arabia. He is now part of the teaching group for senior and final year dental students, both introduction to dental profession and research project courses. Publishing 7 articles and assisting as a reviewer in some medical and dental journals that are ISI and Scopus ranked.