TY - JOUR AU - Nighat Murad , AU - Syed Moyn Aly, PY - 2021/01/16 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Quality assurance procedures in assessment - a descriptive study of medical colleges in Pakistan JF - Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association JA - J Pak Med Assoc VL - 71 IS - 4 SE - Research Article DO - 10.47391/JPMA.831 UR - https://ojs.jpma.org.pk/index.php/public_html/article/view/565 SP - 1113-1117 AB - <p><strong>Objective: </strong>Objective of the present study was to identify and describe the quality assurance procedures being implemented in assessment system of medical colleges in Pakistan.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A cross-sectional study was conducted from March 2015 to December 2017 in 49 medical colleges of Pakistan, using mixed method technique. A semi-structured questionnaire was filled after informed consent. Data was analyzed by using SPSS version 21 (IBM).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In this study, 35(71.4%) of institutions followed a written assessment policy provided by the affiliated university, 09 (18%) never did so, 22 (44.8 %) participants reported that content experts checked if the questions matched the objectives, 17 (34.7%) reported that content expert would never/rarely check that. Majority, 42(85.7%) of institutions took strict steps to prevent cheating in exam, 26 (53.1%) institutions analyzed theory exam statistically. Discrimination index, difficulty index, reliability, and point biserial were calculated in 14(28.6%), 13(26.5%), 12(24.4%), and 7(14.3%) of the medical colleges respectively. Only 12(24.5%) of the institutions provided written feedback on the results, 15 (30.6%) institutions conducted internal audit annually. Themes belonging to assessment domain including, training for assessment, barriers and challenges, feedback and audit were identified.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>General issues related to quality assurance procedures in assessments (e.g. overall awareness about assessment policy) were in place in 60% of the colleges however, a large proportion did not have them.</p><p>QA in assessments during exams was ensured by almost all medical colleges with only few exceptions. After exams QA was below average in terms of item analysis and feedback. <strong>Continuous...</strong></p> ER -