Technical reports
The Medical Council of Canada’s internal researchers often publish technical reports, collaborate with external researchers on technical reports, or fund research into specific directed areas. Below is the list of technical reports arising from these types of studies:
Breithaupt, K. (2011). Medical Licensure Testing: White Paper for the Assessment Review Task Force of the Medical Council of Canada.
Breithaupt, K. & Hare D. (2011). Test Assembly and Delivery Models for a National Examination of Medical Knowledge: Optimal Form Quality and Item Usage from a Modular Design.
Breithaupt, K., Pope, G. & Zumbo, B.D. Test Taker Experiences and Beliefs — A Case Study: Recent Examinees
Breithaupt, K., Wood, T.J., Roy, M. & Zumbo, B.D. Unified Validity Framework: Evidence from an Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE) for International Medical Graduates.
De Champlain, A.F. (2011). Assessing the Underlying Structure of the Medical Council of Canada’s Qualifying Examination Part I Clinical Decision Making Cases: A Comparison of Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis Models.
Gierl, M. & Lai, H. (2011). Using Statistical Measures of Differential Item Functioning to Identify Items that Elicit Group Differences on the Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Exam Part I.
Gierl, M., Lai, H., & Li, J. (2011). Evaluating the Performance of CATSIB in a Multi-Stage Adaptive Testing Environment.
Li, J., Gierl, M.J., Lai, H. & Roussos, L. A Modified CATSIB Procedure for Detecting Differential Item Function on Computer-Based Tests
Soto, A.C. Practice Analysis Studies: A Literature Review of Definitions, Concepts, Features, and Methodologies
Tamblyn, R., Abrahamowicz, M., Bartlett, G., Winslade, N., Jacques, A., Klass, D., Wenghofer, E., Smee, S., Dauphinee, D., Blackmore, D., Bartman, I., Buckeridge, D. & Hanley, J. The Quebec-Ontario Follow-up Study of the Association between Scores Achieved on the MCCQE Part II Examination and Performance in Clinical Practice.
Wood, T.J., Roy, M., McConnell, M.M. & Breithaupt, K. Evidence for the Validity of a Clinical Skill Assessment.