Physician burnout has become a critical issue in a rapidly changing health care environment
and is reported to be increasing. However, little is known about the prevalence of this …

This study addresses equating issues with varying sample sizes using the Rasch model by
examining how sample size affects the stability of item calibrations and person ability …

Licensure testing programs in the United States (eg, nursing) face an increasing challenge
of measuring the competency of internationally trained candidates, both in relation to their …

The Australian Dark Energy Survey (OzDES) is a five-year, 100-night, spectroscopic survey
on the Anglo-Australian Telescope, whose primary aim is to measure redshifts of …

Background The Family Medicine (FM) Milestones are a framework designed to assess
development of residents in key dimensions of physician competency. Residency programs use …

Purpose: Previous research indicated that rural family physicians were more likely to pass
the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) Maintenance of Certification for Family …

Background The ABFM’s ITE was specifically designed to have a high degree of concurrent
and predictive validity, both of which are forms of criterion-related validity. The important …

Introduction: Differential item functioning (DIF) procedures flag examination questions in
which examinees from different subpopulations who are of equal ability do not have the same …

Purpose To examine the relationship between maintenance of certification (MOC) and the
clinical knowledge demonstrated by family physicians as they move further away from formal …

Theory: When test developers have a limited number of test questions available or when the
equating design requires some item overlap across forms, psychometricians worry that …