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Tim Cappelli
demand from students to be able to view this feedback, and in good time, prompted the Medical
School to task a small group within the school to examine, pilot and evaluate the use of electronic
marking by OSCE examiners. The use of information technology to provide immediate feedback from
assessments is well documented (Ridgeway et al 2010), the challenge was to determine the most
appropriate technology.
2. The challenges
The main objective of the pilot was to improve the delivery of feedback to students, both in terms of
the number of students and the time taken for them to receive their feedback. This information was
already being captured, and therefore required no change to the practices of the examiner, but rather
the process by which it was captured, collated and delivered needed to be made more efficient. In
order to determine how this process might be improved through the use of technology, the team
started by detailing the current process. This is shown as a process diagram (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Current OSCE process
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