TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Quality Assurance of Workplace Based Assessment A1 - Hauer, Karen E. A1 - Kogan, Jennifer R. A1 - O’Sullivan, Patricia S. A1 - Ramani, Subha A2 - Malau-Aduli, Bunmi A2 - Hays, Richard A2 - van der Vleuten, Cees PY - 2022 T2 - Understanding Assessment in Medical Education through Quality Assurance AB - Chapter HighlightsThis chapter defines workplace-based assessment (WBA) and characterizes its purpose within a program of assessment to describe learners’ interactions with patients and teams and performance of essential tasks in the workplace.Many available tools for WBA exist, and educators select tools based on the skills deemed important to observe and feasibility and acceptability of the tool for the learners and observers in a particular educational and clinical context.Successful implementation of WBA requires a change in learning culture to promote learners’ and supervisors’ understanding of and skill with direct observation and feedback.Feedback represents dialogue centered within the learner–supervisor relationship where supervisors use WBA data to guide learners in reflecting on their performance, identifying gaps, and generating plans for improvement.Quality assurance of the WBA system requires communicating the purpose and use of WBA to participants, monitoring data quality, and creating and assessing a plan for aggregating data to make decisions about learner competence. SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/11/11 UR - accessworldmed.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1205038871 ER -