McManus, IC;
Elder, AT;
Dacre, J;
(2013)
Investigating possible ethnicity and sex bias in clinical examiners: an analysis of data from the MRCP(UK) PACES and nPACES examinations.
BMC Medical Education
, 13
10.1186/1472-6920-13-103.
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Abstract
Bias of clinical examiners against some types of candidate, based on characteristics such as sex or ethnicity, would represent a threat to the validity of an examination, since sex or ethnicity are 'construct-irrelevant' characteristics. In this paper we report a novel method for assessing sex and ethnic bias in over 2000 examiners who had taken part in the PACES and nPACES (new PACES) examinations of the MRCP(UK).
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Investigating possible ethnicity and sex bias in clinical examiners: an analysis of data from the MRCP(UK) PACES and nPACES examinations |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1472-6920-13-103 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-13-103 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2013 McManus et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > UCL Medical School |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1401369 |
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