Studies were categorised by their method of assessment, with 20 studies assessing prescribing competence and 27 assessing prescribing performance.
Currently, pupils in year two – the final year of key stage one in English primary schools – are assessed by their teachers, which critics say is an unreliable method of assessment compared with externally marked exams.
In our household, there's a sense of irritation at a retrograde method of assessment.
So am I a fan of exams as a method of assessment?
The philosophy here is based on the input-output method of assessment, equivalent to testing the quality of petrol through the performance of a car.
If someone is unable to do an exam in the traditional format, we'll have a discussion with them about adjustments to the method of assessment.
But I don't believe that peer review is the only method of assessment that should be employed, and that the arts are so insular that only artists can possibly understand what other artists are doing.
Section 4 discusses the method of assessment.
The boxplot is the first method of assessment used for the descriptive analysis.
pQCT is becoming more accessible and may provide a superior and more straightforward method of assessment.
The GRADE method of assessment was chosen for ranking the evidence [3].
