Predicting performance in post-graduate education from admissions information ---comparisons of health professions with pharmacy
Richard E Wilcox, PhD* and Kenneth A Lawson, PhD ABSTRACT
Objectives. The goal of the present review was to assess the state of performance prediction in health care programs generally, versus performance in pharmacy schools, using didactic and non-didactic admissions measures. This is important because clinical success represents a combination of skills that are not fully predicted by either type of measure alone.
Methods. PubMed searches were conducted focusing on work published from 2000 onwards, since it is during this period that non-didactic admissions measures have come to be incorporated into the applicant evaluation process. Relevant papers that were available as free full text were used. When these papers were not available by direct import into EndNote, we went directly to the journal to try to retrieve the paper.
Results. Published literature clearly showed that prediction of performance in the didactic portions of health care programs is straightforward when based on pre-health care GPA and achievement test scores. The best predictions are achieved when both measures are combined. While significant statistical prediction is achieved in virtually every study, the percent of total performance variance accounted for is also consistent and uniformly small - in the order of 25%. Similarly, there is now an emerging consensus that
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The Indicated Review had 80 studies involving 11,337 students (Weissberg, Taylor, Schellinger, Payton, Pachan, Dymicki and Durlak,
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Analysis of the data yielded a correlation of 0.51 and variance of 0.26. In other words, 26% of the variance in the Keystone exam scaled score is predicted by the CDT scaled score. When used to predict future performance on the Keystone exam, the use of the t statistic would refute the existence of a connection between the CDT score and that of the Keystone score. An assumption that the predicted means for the 2014 – 2015 Keystone score and the actual Keystone score produced a P value less than 0.001. This is far smaller than the required 0.05 and requires us to accept the alternate hypothesis, that the means are not connected. The final comparative component demonstrated that the CDT accurately predicted student success or lack there of in 57% of all cases. In the remaining 43% of erroneous predictions, the CDT predicted that students would not succeed when in fact, they did 70% of the time. In other words, for 13% of all students, the CDT erroneously predicted student success in Operations with Real Numbers and Expressions when they in fact did not meet
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Anne Worrall-Davies* Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, School Of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK David Cottrell School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Search engines and databases used. The following databases were used to search for the sources for this project, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, PubMed, Ovid, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Taylor and Francis Online, Cambridge University Press, and the Medical Subject Headings.
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The material for this research was gotten from various journals such as US National library of medicine as well as other databases such as Medical research journal. The information from these journals is credible as the journals are peer reviewed and scholarly.
a. The study was conducted in accordance with the ‘Recommendations Guiding Physicians in Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects’ in the 1989 Declaration of Helsinki.
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