The Relationship between Performance of Students in Internal Assessment and Final Summative Assessment in the Subject of Physiology in a North Indian Medical College

Authors

  • Nida Nowreen, Farhana Ahad

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37506/ijop.v7i2.227

Keywords:

Assessments, Medical students, Internal assessment, Summative assessment, Physiology.

Abstract

Background

Assessments, if suitably conducted, can serve several goals and provide many advantages to all stakeholders-the medical students, the teaching faculty, the universities and the society as a whole. Assessment in medical education is mostly of two forms either formative or summative. Although it is generally assumed that the performance of a student in formative assessment will act as a predictor for performance in the summative examination not many studies are available support it.

Objectives

To explore whether performance in the continuous internal assessment, correlates with the final summative assessment in first year medical students in the subject of Physiology for the last three years.

Materials and Method

This study was conducted over a period of six months at SKIMS medical college, Srinagar. It was a observational record-based study on 280 students who took a thorough internal assessment and final examination in the subject of physiology in the batches 2014–15, 2015–16 and 2016–17.

Results

The internal assessment marks showed a positive correlation with marks obtained in final assessment or final university exams in all three batches, which is statistically highly significant (p<0.01). It was also observed that the percentage of final university marks was higher as compared to internal assessment marks in all batches.

Conclusion

The present study revealed a positive correlation between internal assessment and final university marks supporting the general assumption that the performance of a student in formative assessment will act as a predictor for performance in the final summative examination.

Author Biography

  • Nida Nowreen, Farhana Ahad

    Nowreen Nida1,*, Ahad Farhana2

    1Demonstrator, Department of Physiology, SKIMS Medical College, Bemina, Srinagar, J&K, India

    2Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, SKIMS Medical College, Bemina, Srinagar, J&K, India

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Published

2019-07-20

How to Cite

The Relationship between Performance of Students in Internal Assessment and Final Summative Assessment in the Subject of Physiology in a North Indian Medical College. (2019). International Journal of Physiology, 7(2), 175-178. https://doi.org/10.37506/ijop.v7i2.227