TY  - JOUR
DO  - 10.22454/PRiMER.2024.624901
VL  - 8
DA  - 2024/01/23
N2  - Self-assessment of knowledge and confidence is common in medical education, and there are both philosophical and practical justifications for it. However, many attempts to establish a correlation between self-assessments of knowledge or confidence and objective measures of knowledge or skill acquisition have failed. While in some circumstances the inclusion or reliance of self-assessment may be warranted, for example when a study is specifically measuring traits or outcomes that rely upon meta-cognition or increases in confidence, it is more often the case that self-assessment is used as a substitute for more objective measures. This is demonstrably flawed, and PRiMER as a journal will be moving away from publishing reports that inappropriately rely upon self-assessed knowledge or confidence as the only study outcomes.
PB  - Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
AU  - Morley, Christopher P.
L2  - http://journals.stfm.org/primer/2024/editorial-morley-jan24
L1  - http://journals.stfm.org/media/piunnbh3/primer-8-5.pdf
TI  - Moving on From Self-assessment
ER  -