Medical Education Workshop: Design Thinking in Curriculum/Course Design

Design thinking in instructional and curriculum design can enhance creativity in teaching and learning in assessments by taking an empathetic student-centric approach, whilst balancing the teaching and learning possibilities with constraints of the department and faculty.
The model of empathy, define, ideate, prototype and testing will be used in group design activities and discussions occurring in person along with the usage of Padlet. Groups collaborate on group members’ ‘real’ educational problems. The design thinking mindset encompasses curiosity, empathy to needs and contexts of individuals and users, collaborative working in valuing diversity, acceptance of uncertainty and progress and can be used to innovate, problem solve and enhance existing curriculums.

Workshop 2021 Series: Alternative Formats of Assessment: Constructed Response Items and Script Concordance Test

Constructed response items and item psychometric properties will be discussed during this workshop. The use of Script Concordance Test (SCT) to assess clinical reasoning skills will be introduced and how to develop high quality SCT items for various health sciences will be discussed.

Workshop 2021 Series: The Anatomy and Rationale of MCQ Format

Constructing assessment questions plays an important role to help achieving learning goals. Well-constructed items and aligned with the curriculum are key elements in designing assessment question. This workshop will address how teachers may contribute towards the development of high quality summative assessment.

Designing High Quality Summative Assessment

To further elaborate on the reliability of an examination paper after introduction of reliability during OME workshop in September 2020. To understand the basic principles of reliability of an examination. Apply the principles to own examination paper and study how to improve the examination.

Designing High Quality Summative Assessment

Assessment drives learning. High quality assessment questions plays an important role in helping students meet their learning goals. This workshop will discuss the key elements in the design of assessment questions, and how teachers may contribute to the development of summative assessment of high quality.

Formative Assessment Workshop

The current wave of test-based “accountability” makes it seem as though all assessment could be reduced to “tough tests” attached to high stakes. Summative assessment is the attempt to summarize student learning at some point in time, say the end of a course, they are not designed to provide the immediate, contextualized feedback useful for helping teacher and student during the learning process. By contrast, formative assessment occurs when teachers feed information back to students in ways that enable the student to learn better, or when students can engage in a similar, self-reflective process.
During the COVID-19 period, if the primary purpose of assessment is to support high-quality learning then formative assessment ought to be understood as the most important assessment practice.
The workshop will facilitate participants to understand the principle of assessment and the benefit of formative assessment. How to promote formative assessment within CUHK during this difficult period of time.

Item Analysis Workshop

This workshop will help teachers understand psychometric data in an item analysis report. The item statistics of MCQs in previous years’ final exams will be used to illustrate problem items.

Workshop on Inter-professional Education and Collaborative Practice

Standard Setting Workshop

Setting a pass-fail standard is an obligatory requirement, particularly for high-stakes examination. Set an arbitrary and fixed pass/fail standard, or apply different method of Standard Setting on passing sore is a practical issue for exam coordinators. A practical hands-on interactive workshop will enable participants to understand and adopt Standard Setting in your examinations.

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