Background:
In competency-based medical education (CBME), workplace-based assessment (WBA) aims to provide stakeholders with evidence of learner competencies. Hence, ensuring the validity of the WBA processes is crucial.
Learning objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants are able to:
1. Analyze the most common issues related to validating a WBA tool.
2. Build a feasible plan to enhance the effectiveness of their current WBA process.
Workshop description:
Firstly, participants should determine the aims of assessing task performance in a real-life context. The discussion should focus on the potential ability of WBA, which includes scoring, generalizing, extrapolating and judging learners’ competencies.
Next, participants should present their viewpoints on choosing the ideal format for assessing task performance in a real-life context. The discussion should focus on the pros and cons of using a non-specific, multi-purpose tool and a series of specific, rubric-based tools. Discussion should reveal the relationship between the WBA format and the inference ability.
Then, the discussion continues with the assessment agenda, including the agenda itself and its potential impacts on the learning process. Participants will provide their viewpoints on the advantages and disadvantages of performance fixed and flexible, on-demand agenda.
Participants should exchange their viewpoints on collecting feedback from various stakeholders and using feedback (coding, analyzing, implementing) to improve the validity of their WBA tools.
Finally, participants should determine activities that ensure appropriate learning behaviors (e.g. how to support self-reflection and enhance peer evaluation effectiveness) and effective teacher-learner communications during WBA (e.g. training professional skills).

Authors:
Luan Au, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Hochiminh City, Vietnam
My Do, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Hochiminh City, Vietnam
Hien Nguyen, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Hochiminh City, Vietnam
Mai Nguyen, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Hochiminh City, Vietnam

About the Presenter(s)
Dr Luan Nhut Au is a senior lecturer, curricular developer and former head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Hochiminh City (UMP). His works focus on pedagogical approaches in higher education, especially Team-Based learning, curriculum development, student assessment and education quality assurance.

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