Volume : V, Issue : I, January - 2015

Objective Structured Practical Assessment And Feedback(OSPAF) As A Teaching Tool for Learning Pathology for Medical Students: A Control Trial

Dr Bhagyashri R Hungund, Dr Sunita Y Patil, Dr Arun V Joshi, Dr Manasi Gosavi, Dr Hema Bannur, Dr Mallapur Md

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Background: There is strong support for the role of teacher feedback in the formative assessment in literature. Objective structured practical examination(OSPE) has been used effectively as a tool of assessment. However, its role has usually been limited to one of the low stakes examination. Thus there is a need to increase the utility of OSPE as teaching tool and to evaluate its effectiveness. Objectives: 1.To integrate an element of constructive feedback in to the existing OSPE, converting it in to objective structured practical assessment and feedback 2. To assess the effectiveness of OSPAF as a teaching tool in terms of student performance. Methods: Randomly selected batches of students were given feedback after the assessment task and the effectiveness of the feedback was assessed by compå the pre–test and post– test marks of student group who had been given feedback and those who had not been given feedback . Questionnaire and focused group discussions were used to get feedback from the students and faculty . Results: Though there was a postive response from the students and the faculty regarding the OSPAF, there was no statistically significant improvement in the performance among the students who had been given feedback( p= 0.005) Conclusion: OSPAF was a tool a good teaching tool as seen as response from students and faculty. However the significant change in the performance of the students could not be proved in the present study.

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Dr Bhagyashri R Hungund,Dr Sunita Y Patil,Dr Arun V Joshi,Dr Manasi Gosavi,Dr Hema Bannur,Dr Mallapur MD Objective Structured Practical Assessment and Feedback( Ospaf) as a Teaching Tool for Learning Pathology for Medical Students: a Control Trial Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 1 January 2015

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