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New Features
Record and Review for OSCE exams
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Grade bands are now available, allowing you to categorise a candidate’s performance on a test. Each band is a range of scores defined by the exam administrators. Bands can be labelled to indicate what a candidate’s score equates to on your grading scale (Honours, A to F, numeric scale etc).
Grade bands can be set per exam.
Benchmark Based Standard Setting
The new Benchmark Based Standard Setting option allows for the calculation of exam standards based on cohort performance. Sub-cohorts can also be defined if cohorts are heterogeneous/multi-modal.
Standard benchmarks that are calculated include the mean, mean minus 1/2 standard deviations and median. Custom benchmarks can also be calculated and set. The system will plot a histogram of candidate cohort performance. Custom benchmarks can also be calculated and set. This method also allows for the use of Cohen standard setting.
Improvements
Improvement on Candidate/Examiner interface
New Notes facility, allowing candidates and examiners to take notes relating to a specific station in an OSCE.
Improved resource viewer, incl. Prev and Next buttons for multi-page documents, full screen and close buttons, scroll bar to scroll on a single page.
Highlighting function, allowing candidates to highlight sections of text.
New tooltips on the image viewer button.
The user can adjust the size of the video tiles in OSCEs.
The user can enlarge video tile to full screen in OSCEs (including video tile for screen share).
The examiners/observers can indicate that they have validated the ID of a candidate, the validation is confirmed on the exam administration login screen.
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A new search facility on the Exam login screen, allowing free text search of all exam participants, their roles and their statuses.
New colour coding of exam participant status (logged in, ID not verified, Did Not Attend, Complete).
Additional exam detail information on the Exam administration login screen.
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Item performance can now be shown per exam. The improvement includes distractor analysis for Single Best Answer items. Note that this feature requires configuration.
Practique now facilitates the exclusion of specific dimensions in the pre-filtering.