Assessment

Building the Assessment System

About this module

The director-level view: architecting a coherent assessment system across courses and clerkships — blueprints, standard setting, psychometrics, and policy.

Related LCME elements

Every module states its LCME elements explicitly. Tags link to the SILME standards reference (March 2026 edition); element numbers and titles below are quoted from that data.

Element 9.4 Element 9.6 Element 9.8 Element 8.4

Learning objectives

By the end of this module, participants will be able to:

• Architect assessment across the curriculum
• Select and defend standard-setting methods
• Use psychometric data for continuous improvement

Module outline

1. Systems thinking about assessment
2. Blueprinting across courses
3. Standard setting at scale
4. Psychometrics for decision-makers
5. Policy: advancement, appeal, remediation

Discussion prompts

• Where is your system thinnest?
• What would a survey team ask you?

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