To assess for the consistency of student responses over time and to place medical student attitudes towards mental illness into a greater context, attitudes towards mental illness were compared with those for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM), a stigmatized but non-mental health related illness [ 43], using questions 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the OMS-HC (Additional file 1).
This is evidence of not only a lack of consistency in student politics but also a general confusion about what students want.
To verify that wording and meaning of statements are clear to students and that there is consistency between students' Likert-scale responses and verbal explanations, 39 students were interviewed (22 majors, 17 nonmajors/undeclared; 10 males, 29 females).
Although the consistency in student ratings of the instructor over the two semesters does somewhat address this concern, the possibility of unmeasured instructor effects cannot be ruled out.
Such data can be used to examine learning progress as a result of specific instruction and feedback, as well as consistency of student phylogenetic tree understanding over time.
The program's intent in this regard was to offer consistency to students so they would not have to move from a middle school with site-based management to a high school still laboring under the old style.
The most striking result is the overall consistency of students' response patterns across levels, semesters, and years.
In our analysis, we focused on the consistency between students' explanations and interpretations of arguments from evidence.
In these situations, a more formal process may be needed to ensure that all students are adequately supported and to establish consistency in how student writers are mentored and assessed.
The Resident Prep Curriculum (RPC), published in 2014 and developed as a collaboration of the American College of Surgeons, Association of Program Directors in Surgery, and the Association for Surgical Education, was designed to improve the quality and consistency of medical student preparation for surgical residency.
