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. 2019 Mar;31(1):39-50.
doi: 10.3946/kjme.2019.117. Epub 2019 Mar 1.

Students' self-assessment of achievement of terminal competency and 4-year trend of student evaluation on outcome-based education

Sanghee Yeo  1 , Bong Hyun Chang  1
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Students' self-assessment of achievement of terminal competency and 4-year trend of student evaluation on outcome-based education

Sanghee Yeo et al. Korean J Med Educ. 2019 Mar.

Abstract

Purpose: This study was designed to allow a student at School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University (KNUSOM) to self-assess how well they had achieved competency and to analyze the differences and trends of the scores by year. Furthermore, students are asked to evaluate the need for curriculum improvement by competency, the tendency of the score is analyzed by year, and the results are reflected in the improvement of the curriculum.

Methods: We conducted a questionnaire survey for fourth-year students of KNUSOM who took medical education classes from 2015 to 2018. Questionnaire items were evaluated on the basis of their current achievement of 30 subordinate competencies of competency and the degree of necessity with respect to revising the curriculum. One-way analysis of variance was performed for the yearly difference analysis.

Results: The students' scores on the graduation competency were 2.03 to 4.06. In the yearly difference analysis, there was no significant difference in the average of 30 total competencies, but 16 of the sub-competencies showed significant year-to-year differences. The scores for the 30 graduation competencies were different for each year, but the competencies showing high scores and low scores were found to be similar each year.

Conclusion: We found that the achievement level of the students was approximately 60% to 70%. We were able to confirm the contents of the education that the students continuously demand. The curriculum trend graphs for each year showed that the students' scores improved when the curriculum was being revised. We found that it is necessary to accept the students' self-evaluation reliable as the students indicated that the contents of the curriculum should be added to the areas where the contents were lacking in the present curriculum.

Keywords: Competency-based curriculum; Curriculum assessment; Outcome-based curriculum; Self-assessment.

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Conflicts of interest

No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.

Figures

Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.. Student’s Achievement of Competencies by Year When We Calculate the Total Achievement Target as 100%
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.. Annual Distribution of Students’ Self-Assessment Scores of Terminal Competencies
Fig. 3.
Fig. 3.. Annual Need for Curriculum Improvement in Relation to Terminal Competencies (2015–2018)
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Fig. 4.. Comparison of the 4-Year Average Scores between Students’ Self-Assessment of Terminal Competencies and the Need for Curriculum Improvement
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