Today I was reading Iserson's "Getting Into a Residency" - in his chapter on Grdes, Tests & Clinical Clerkships he wrote...
"How do you interpret the scores? The percentile score that rated examinees against a standard group is no longer being reported, resulting in a more-or-less "Pass-Fail" system. This makes it more difficult for residency directors and licensing boards to determine how well examinees who passed the exam did on the USMLE (although many residency directors try to interpret the relative scores individulas get)."
I was under the impression that the value of relative scores mattered quite a bit, right? I thought that the relative scores were relatively standardized so they could be compared among students, right?
It's not a "more-or-less 'Pass-Fail' system", right? Certainly passing is needed, but the number itself also matters quite a bit too, right?
"How do you interpret the scores? The percentile score that rated examinees against a standard group is no longer being reported, resulting in a more-or-less "Pass-Fail" system. This makes it more difficult for residency directors and licensing boards to determine how well examinees who passed the exam did on the USMLE (although many residency directors try to interpret the relative scores individulas get)."
I was under the impression that the value of relative scores mattered quite a bit, right? I thought that the relative scores were relatively standardized so they could be compared among students, right?
It's not a "more-or-less 'Pass-Fail' system", right? Certainly passing is needed, but the number itself also matters quite a bit too, right?