Open-ended questions with a clinical vignette in lay-terms that students must summarize Can be reliable (as part of a programme of assessment) Inter-rater agreement 0.75-0.80 Generalizability to 0.8 requires 20-25 cases Challenge: time to mark (1 min/case)Need other evidence of validity
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