An Integrated System for Online Clinical Assessment of Practical Skills (eCAPS) for Web-Based Courses Final Report.
Final report of the online clinical assessment of practical skills (eCAPS) project, which utilised conventional and emerging web-based video technologies to develop and assess students' musculoskeletal and sports medicine clinical examination skills in remote and online environments. It was con...
| Institutions: | University of Queensland University of Melbourne University of British Columbia |
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Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC)
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| Rochtain ar líne: | /resources/PP8_893_Macdonald_Report_2012.pdf |
| Achoimre: | Final report of the online clinical assessment of practical skills (eCAPS) project, which utilised conventional and emerging web-based video technologies to develop and assess students' musculoskeletal and sports medicine clinical examination skills in remote and online environments. It was constituted by three sequential yet interdependent elements: (1) web-video lectures and exemplars of musculoskeletal practical skills sets by experts in the relevant field of focus; (2) asynchronous, learner-generated video demonstrations of a variety of clinically relevant practical skills using portable USB cameras uploaded to a response and feedback online repository for personal and course-community access; and (3) real time (synchronous) assessment of practical skills sets within a simulated objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) scenario via personal computer video-conferencing. The online postgraduate coursework students and undergraduate medical students valued the flexible online learning and assessment approach and recognized the coherent relationship between eCAPS elements. The students' examination performances improved significantly from the baseline standards, while the reliability of online video-based judgements was demonstrated to be within acceptable degrees of tolerance. Given its conceptual simplicity and technological applicability, eCAPS has the potential to provide enhanced learning and assessment opportunities beyond tertiary education contexts including continuing professional development and the verification of professional clinical competencies. |
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| ISBN: | 9781922125132 (PDF) 9781922125125 (print ed) 9781922125132 (PDF) 9781922125125 (print ed) |
