I just learned that the
#LCME is changing the way they do the ISA. Instead of using satisfaction-type survey items, they are now going to use items that employ agree/disagree response options.
Let me just say two things about this:
1) the LCME's over-emphasis on student evaluations when it comes to
#MedEd accreditation is mostly uninformed and misguided to begin with, and
2) the move to agreed/disagree items is another mistake. Agree/disagree items are "strongly disagreeable." In fact, I and others (eg,
@HunterGehlbach) have been writing about the problems with such items for many years, and the problems are summarized quite well in the following review article by
@JenniferDykema:
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
My sense has always been that we're trying to be
#evidence informed in the work we do in
#education and
#HigherEd but stuff like this makes me wonder... 😣