Debriefing Trading Places: The Exam Experience and How to Use Results

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

3:00 PM – 3:50 PM East Coast USA Time

Location: Cherry Blossom (Mezzanine Level)

CMEs: 0.75

Primary Speaker(s)

Casey Johnson, PhD (he/him/his)

Senior Director, Assessment and Psychometrician
PAEA, Texas

Co-Speaker(s)

Melinda Blazar, EdD, MHS, PA-C (she/her/hers)

Director of Assessment and Evaluation
Duke University Physician Assistant Program
Durham, North Carolina
Robbie T. Furter, PhD, MBA (he/him/his)

Senior Director, Research and DataOps, Principal Psychometrician
PAEA

Disclosure(s):

Casey Johnson, PhD: No financial relationships to disclose

Robbie T. Furter, PhD, MBA: No financial relationships to disclose

Description: This session will follow up on the Trading Places sessions Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning with a discussion of how it went for participants. Then, we will use the aggregated scores from the session to help members understand how PAEA scale scores are constructed and meant to be used and give guidance on how participants can build similar scoring metrics for their programs using item mapping.

Learning Objectives:

Understand the student experience of taking a PAEA End of Rotation exam.
Interpret reported areas of strength and weakness PAEA Assessment exams for curriculum improvement.
Use item mapping to build scoring metrics for your program.