Blueprint designing and validation for competency-based curriculum for theory assessment in community medicine

Shaping Medical Assessment with Expert Consensus: A Theory-Based Summative Evaluation Blueprint for Community Medicine.

“…Blueprint addresses the assessment's competencies, tools, and sampling content in a logical and balanced way, We reported an overall response rate of 72% (range 43-93%) in our study, while in the study done an another author the response rate was 63.2% (Mathur et al 2021). Author included 146 cognitive/knowledge (K) domain and level competences that signi ed "knows" and "knows how" (KH).…”

“…"should know," and "nice to know." The CVI among the raters came out to be 0.86, which is acceptable and implies that it ensures the overall validity of an assessment (Mathur et al 2021). In our study, the CVI score was 0.872.…”

“…In the study by Mathur et al, the chapter titled "Reproductive and Child Health" was given the highest weight, 22%, followed by "Epidemiology of Communicable Disease and Non-Communicable Disease," 20% (Mathur et al 2021).…”

“…The design of a blueprint in a vast subject like community medicine was challenging, but it will help standardise the assessment method in the subject, which will address the problems that arise due to under-or overrepresentation of constructs. A validated blueprint by consensus of subject experts has an impact factor and a frequency factor, along with topic-wise distribution of marks for the convenience of experts (Mathur et al 2021) CONCLUSION…”

“…Many authors have developed blueprint for the summative assessment of various levels of cognitive domains (Patil et al 2015;Gujarathi et al 2015;Patel et al 2016; Gill and Sen 2020; Kaur et al 2021; Mathur et al 2021). All the studies included a group of experts; however, the authors typically computed the Impact score and the Frequency score on the chapter level.…”