Validity evidence for using an online peer-assessment tool (CATME) to assess individual contributions to interprofessional student teamwork in a longitudinal team-based learning course

ABSTRACT

Assessing competence for teamwork is a challenging task. Neverthesless, health professions training programs are asked to assure collaborative competency in their learners. Interprofessional education (IPE) programs seek tools to assess team member effectiveness and demonstrate collaborative competency. The Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness (CATME), originally developed for use in engineering, has been applied in various learning settings, with limited use in IPE. This paper presents validity evidence in 4 domains (content, response processes, internal structure, and relations to other variables) for the use of the CATME in a classroom-based IPE course taught with Team-Based Learning.

KEYWORDS:

• Teamwork
• peer-assessment
• self-assessment
• interprofessional education
• team-based learning

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and the Colorado Health Foundation whose support enabled us to develop the programs described in the manuscript.

Disclosure statement

The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of this article.

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Funding

This work was funded under a grant from Doctors Company Foundation;Health Foundation

Notes on contributors

Mark Earnest

Mark Earnest MD, PhD is the Meiklejohn Endowed Professor of Medicine and Division Head General Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, Colorado.

Wendy S. Madigosky

Wendy S. Madigosky MD, MPH FAAFP is Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, Colorado.

Traci Yamashita

Traci Yamashita MPH is an Educational Analyst in the Office of Undergraduate Medical Education at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, Colorado.

Janice L. Hanson

Janice L. Hanson PhD, ED.S, M.H. is a Professor of Medicine and the Director of Educational Scholarship Development in the Office of Medical Education at Washington University in St. Louis, MO.