Assessment of examiner leniency and stringency ('hawk-dove effect') in the MRCP(UK) clinical examination (PACES) using multi-facet Rasch modelling.

BMC Med Educ · 2006 · PMC1569374 · PMID 16919156

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"Examiner X" had examined 367 candidates (with 10 different other examiners), and only 46.3% of those candidates had passed the exam, a highly significant difference from the 66.0% pass rate in the remaining candidates (assuming, as the paper says, that candidates were effectively allocated to examiners at random).

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