Machine Scoring of Medical Students' Written Clinical Reasoning: Initial Validity Evidence.
Journal:
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
Published Date:
Jul 1, 2021
Abstract
PURPOSE: Developing medical students' clinical reasoning requires a structured longitudinal curriculum with frequent targeted assessment and feedback. Performance-based assessments, which have the strongest validity evidence, are currently not feasible for this purpose because they are time-intensive to score. This study explored the potential of using machine learning technologies to score one such assessment-the diagnostic justification essay.