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07 '20
By Toby Gordon Public Member, ABR Board of Governors Any description of educational and testing modalities before the COVID pandemic would probably sound like a lecture by Fred Flintstone about technology in the Stone Age. While we have been in what’s called the Meghalayan era (named for a stalagmite in an Indian cave) since the end…
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07 '20
We have written about the importance of having Online Longitudinal Assessment (OLA) participants serve as question raters. One of OLA’s unique features is that diplomates set the passing standard for questions in their specialties. Having as many participants as possible rating questions is crucial to OLA’s fairness and relevancy. These ratings help ensure we…
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07 '20
Online Longitudinal Assessment (OLA) has been available for 18 months and approximately 30,000 diplomates are participating. As we come to the middle of the year, some diplomates are closing in on answering 52 scorable questions and reaching their annual progress requirement. That raises the question: What happens now? After participants meet their annual…
