Abstract
Determining a Hofstee cut-off point in medical education student assessment is problematic: traditional methods can be time-consuming, inaccurate, and inflexible. To counter this, we developed a simple Android app that receives raw, unsorted student assessment data in .csv format, allows for multiple judges' inputs, mean or median inputs, calculates the Hofstee cut-off mathematically, and outputs the results with other guiding information. The app contains a detailed description of its functionality.
Highlights
Determining the pass/fail score in assessments In medical education assessment, determining the student pass/fail mark is a contentious issue.[1]
Most methods fall into three categories: norm-referenced, criterion-referenced and compromise methods.[4]
Comments This paper has described the successful design and development of a free, advertisement-free, Android app to calculate the Hofstee cut-off
Summary
Determining the pass/fail score in assessments In medical education assessment, determining the student pass/fail mark is a contentious issue.[1]. An app A search in both the Apple and Android app stores (conducted in January 2020 and again in March 2020) confirmed that there was no such app in either of the stores To meet this need for a simple and accurate method of determining the Hofstee cut-off, we designed and developed a simple Android app. The app automatically sorts the data, draws the chart, and calculates the cut-off point algebraically. The time to draw the chart and determine the cut-off from a dataset of unsorted, 1,000 randomly-generated numbers (MSExcel 2019 RANDBETWEEN(1,100)), was approximately 2 seconds (Samsung S8, Model SM-G955FD, Android Ver. 9, Build PPR1.180610.011.G955FXXS6DTA1). Comments This paper has described the successful design and development of a free, advertisement-free, Android app to calculate the Hofstee cut-off. Full usability and ease of use will be tested in the future through more rigorous, wide-spread testing among medical educators
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