Assessing the assessment: a comparison of the IPASS and ICCAS to measure change in interprofessional competencies following a large-scale interprofessional forum
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Lorin M Towle-Miller; Jessica S. Kruger; Ryan Krzyzanowicz; Patricia J. Ohtake; Lisa Jane Jacobsen; Gregory E. Wilding; Janice Tona
- Source
- Journal of Interprofessional Care. 35:726-735
- Subject
- Medical education
030504 nursing
Scale (ratio)
Interprofessional Relations
Measure (physics)
General Medicine
Interprofessional education
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Social desirability bias
Health Occupations
Surveys and Questionnaires
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
0305 other medical science
Psychology
Retrospective Studies
- Language
- ISSN
- 1469-9567
1356-1820
Measuring the effectiveness of interprofessional education (IPE) experiences is essential but challenging. Surveying learners before (pretest) and after (posttest) an IPE experience may result in minimal change due to response shift bias. Retrospective pretest/posttest assessment may ameliorate response shift bias but may also result in inflated change scores due to social desirability bias. We studied a cohort of 675 students from 12 health professions who completed the