Challenging the norm: Length of exams determined by classification accuracy or reliability.

Purpose: This paper challenges the notion that reliability indices are appropriate for informing test length in exams in medical education, where the focus is on ensuring defensible pass‐fail decisions. Instead, we argue that using classification accuracy instead better suited to the purpose of exam...

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Published in:Medical Education Vol. 59; no. 12; pp. 1363 - 1375
Main Authors: Schauber, Stefan K., Homer, Matt
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Dec2025
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