A randomised trial of the influence of racial stereotype bias on examiners’ scores, feedback and recollections in undergraduate clinical exams
| Autor: | Mairhead Boohan, Ben Davies, Emyr W. Benbow, Peter Yeates, Kevin W. Eva, Katherine Woolf |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Asian Continental Ancestry Group
Male Medical education Students Medical 020205 medical informatics media_common.quotation_subject common European Continental Ancestry Group education Ethnic group lcsh:Medicine Stereotype 02 engineering and technology Assessment Differential attainment Racism 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Double-Blind Method 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Lexical decision task Ethnicity Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Disadvantage media_common Medicine(all) White (horse) Education Medical/standards business.industry common.demographic_type lcsh:R R735 General Medicine Confidence interval Female Clinical Competence Stereotypes business White British Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | BMC Medicine, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2017) Yeates, P, Woolf, K, Benbow, E, Davies, B, Boohan, M & Eva, K 2017, ' A randomised trial of the influence of racial stereotype bias on examiners' scores, feedback and recollections in undergraduate clinical exams ', BMC Medicine, vol. 15, no. 179, pp. 179 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-017-0943-0 Yeates, P, Woolf, K, Benbow, E, Davies, B, Boohan, M & Eva, K 2017, ' A randomised trial of the influence of racial stereotype bias on examiners' scores, feedback and recollections in undergraduate clinical exams ', BMC Medicine, vol. 15, no. 1 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-017-0943-0 |
| ISSN: | 1741-7015 |
| DOI: | 10.14288/1.0362001 |
| Popis: | Background: Asian medical students and doctors receive lower scores on average than their white counterparts in examinations in the UK and internationally (a phenomenon known as “differential attainment”). This could be due to examiner bias or to social, psychological or cultural influences on learning or performance. We investigated whether students’ scores or feedback show influence of ethnicity-related bias; whether examiners unconsciously bring to mind (activate) stereotypes when judging Asian students’ performance; whether activation depends on the stereotypicality of students’ performances; and whether stereotypes influence examiner memories of performances. Methods: This is a randomised, double-blinded, controlled, Internet-based trial. We created near-identical videos of medical student performances on a simulated Objective Structured Clinical Exam using British Asian and white British actors. Examiners were randomly assigned to watch performances from white and Asian students that were either consistent or inconsistent with a previously described stereotype of Asian students’ performance. We compared the two examiner groups in terms of the following: the scores and feedback they gave white and Asian students; how much the Asian stereotype was activated in their minds (response times to Asian-stereotypical vs neutral words in a lexical decision task); and whether the stereotype influenced memories of student performances (recognition rates for real vs invented stereotype-consistent vs stereotype-inconsistent phrases from one of the videos). Results: Examiners responded to Asian-stereotypical words (716 ms, 95% confidence interval (CI) 702–731 ms) faster than neutral words (769 ms, 95% CI 753–786 ms, p |
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