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Reg Dennick
Researcher at University of Nottingham
Publications - 46
Citations - 10354
Reg Dennick is an academic researcher from University of Nottingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Teaching method & Objective test. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 45 publications receiving 8057 citations.
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Making sense of Cronbach's alpha
Mohsen Tavakol,Reg Dennick +1 more
TL;DR: The meaning of Cronbach’s alpha, the most widely used objective measure of reliability, is explained and the underlying assumptions behind alpha are explained in order to promote its more effective use.
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Assessing the Skills of Surgical Residents Using Simulation
TL;DR: Many problems concerning the validity and reliability of such simulation-based assessment tools exist, particularly in surgery, that may need to be investigated even more to decide whether to use them as a tool for assessing the performance of surgical residents.
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Post-examination analysis of objective tests.
Mohsen Tavakol,Reg Dennick +1 more
TL;DR: The post-examination analytical methods described in this guide enable medical educators to construct reliable and valid achievement tests and enablemedical educators to develop question banks using the collection of appropriate questions from existing examination tests in order to use computerised adaptive testing.
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Constructivism: reflections on twenty five years teaching the constructivist approach in medical education.
TL;DR: The connections between a variety of educational, communication and psychotherapeutic processes are explored and it is shown that constructivism holds the promise of providing some unity to the practice of education and learning.
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Empathy in UK medical students: differences by gender, medical year and specialty interest.
TL;DR: The results from a cross-sectional study that explored the relationship between undergraduate medical students' empathy scores relevant to gender, medical school year and future career ambitions support the hypothesis that those preferring peopleoriented specialities would score higher on the empathy scale than students choosing technology oriented specialities.