Mixed Messages or Miscommunication? Investigating the Relationship Between Assessors’ Workplace-Based Assessment Scores and Written Comments

PURPOSE: The shift toward broader, programmatic assessment has revolutionized the approaches that many take in assessing medical competence. To understand the association between quantitative and qualitative evaluations, the authors explored the relationships that exist among assessors' checklist scores, task ratings, global ratings, and written comments. METHOD: The authors collected and analyzed, using regression analyses, data from the …