Vivekananda‐Schmidt, P. orcid.org/0000-0003-1629-6574, Oldale, F., Russell, J. et al. (1 more author) (2023) Peer assessment of professionalism attributes. The Clinical Teacher, 20 (3). e13570. ISSN 1743-4971
Abstract
Background Peer assessment can support the development of professionalism by providing feedback that enables learners to reflect on their professional behavioural attributes.
Approach We developed and implemented an innovative online peer assessment and feedback tool. Students were encouraged to nominate 12 peer assessors to anonymously conduct their assessment. Assessors were presented with a list of 32 adjectives that described professional behavioural attributes within four domains (integrity, conscientiousness, agreeableness and resilience) and asked to rate the student by selecting a minimum of two adjectives in each domain and to provide free-text comments. The feedback was presented as a collated word cloud and free-text comments. All students had the opportunity to discuss their profiles with a staff member.
Evaluation Our mixed-methods evaluation found that all students participated, and they valued the peer assessment and feedback process. Although the assessment was formative and confidential, students were reluctant to provide negative comments about their peers. ‘Disengaged’, ‘aloof’ and ‘argumentative’ were the most likely negative adjectives that indicated students with low-level professionalism concerns.
Implications Future development will focus on introducing students who can act as peer champions for the process and repeating the peer assessment over time to identify the change in professionalism development.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Authors. The Clinical Teacher published by Association for the Study of Medical Education and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > The Medical School (Sheffield) > Academic Unit of Medical Education (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 16 Mar 2023 12:19 |
Last Modified: | 01 Oct 2024 07:53 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/tct.13570 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:197332 |