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]
The app is optimised for Android 2.1 and higher, API level 28, and requires permission to read from and store data to the device
Summary
Determining the pass/fail score in assessments In medical education assessment, determining the student pass/fail mark is a contentious issue.[1]. After the test has been administered to the students, a graph (Figure 1) is drawn, plotting the cumulative percentage of students against the scores obtained, and the means of the four parameters. The chart is drawn more accurately than by hand, it still requires a manual reading of the intersection point. 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 app is available free of charge, and with no advertisements
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