Mohsen Tavakol
Biographic Data
| ID | 7657942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohsen Tavakol |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohsen |
| FAMILY NAME | Tavakol |
| SIGNATURE | TAVAKOL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8161-8416 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Twelve tips for using phenomenology as a qualitative research approach in health professions education
Phenomenology is a qualitative research approach that seeks to understand the individual meanings of lived experience. This 12 Tips article highlights the importance of understanding the philosophical foundations that inform the choice of phenomenological research study, including descriptive and interpretive phenomenology. The article provides a practical guide to the choice of the most appropriate phenomenological research approach and the proc…
Rapid reliability assessment of Angoff standard setting
Dear EditorDifferences in performance among individual standard setters can introduce errors, leading to inappropriate pass marks. Educators emphasize the importance of standard setting in assessme
Twelve tips to aid interpretation of post-assessment psychometric reports
Post-assessments psychometric reports are a vital component of the assessment cycle to ensure that assessments are reliable, valid and fair to make appropriate pass-fail decisions. Students' scores can be summarised by examination of frequency distributions, central tendency measures and dispersion measures. Item discrimination indicies to assess the quality of items, and distractors that differentiate between students achieving or not achieving …
Merging relative and absolute methods
Dear EditorThe Angoff method is widely used in medical education as it can be applied to a variety of assessments, such as multiple choice, OSCE and very short answer questions. However, this appro
Are three options optimal for multiple-choice questions
"Are three options optimal for multiple-choice questions?." Medical Teacher, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), p. 1
Ranking students in OSCEs
Dear EditorPerformance rating systems such as OSCEs use multiple examiners across various stations to assess the clinical performance of students for pass/fail classifications. However, OSCE-irrele
Feedback to support examiners’ understanding of the standard-setting process and the performance of students
The ratings that judges or examiners use for determining pass marks and students' performance on OSCEs serve a number of essential functions in medical education assessment, and their validity is a pivotal issue. However, some types of errors often occur in ratings that require special efforts to minimise. Rater characteristics (e.g. generosity error, severity error, central tendency error or halo error) may present a source of performance irrele…
Does widening participation status affect undergraduate medical student performance; a meta-analysis of knowledge-based assessments and OSCE over a 5-year period
Reply to Christopher Harrison
Factor Analysis
Making sense of Cronbach's alpha
Medical educators attempt to create reliable and valid tests and questionnaires in order to enhance the accuracy of their assessment and evaluations. Validity and reliability are two fundamental elements in the evaluation of a measurement instrument. Instruments can be conventional knowledge, skill or attitude tests, clinical simulations or survey questionnaires. Instruments can measure concepts, psychomotor skills or affective values. Validity i…
Grounded Theory in Medical Education Research
The grounded theory method provides a systematic way to generate theoretical constructs or concepts that illuminate psychosocial processes common to individual who have a similar experience of the phenomenon under investigation. There has been an increase in the number of published research reports that use the grounded theory method. However, there has been less medical education research, which is based on the grounded theory tradition. The pur…
Medical Education in Iran
There is a real need for major changes in the medical education curriculum in Iran. The results of this study suggest that a move towards a curriculum that engages students as active participants in a process of lifelong learning would be highly beneficial. As clinically qualified doctors they will face many challenges in the years ahead, and a modernized curriculum should help them to acquire the necessary knowledge and develop the clinical skil…
A Quantitative Survey of Knowledge of Reproductive Health Issues of 12-14-year-old Girls of Different Ethnic and Religious Backgrounds in Iran
A quantitative research study was conducted to examine the knowledge of girls aged 12-14 years regarding reproductive health in five cities in Iran with different ethnic and cultural majorities. A cross-sectional study using a self-administrated questionnaire was conducted among guide school (middle school) pupils. Data analysis was based on 1,893 questionnaires. The internal consistency of the items was 0.80. Overall, knowledge level was unsatis…
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A Quantitative Survey of Knowledge of Reproductive Health Issues of 12-14-year-old Girls of Different Ethnic and Religious Backgrounds in Iran
A quantitative research study was conducted to examine the knowledge of girls aged 12-14 years regarding reproductive health in five cities in Iran with different ethnic and cultural majorities. A cross-sectional study using a self-administrated questionnaire was conducted among guide school (middle school) pupils. Data analysis was based on 1,893 questionnaires. The internal consistency of the items was 0.80. Overall, knowledge level was unsatis…
Grounded Theory in Medical Education Research
The grounded theory method provides a systematic way to generate theoretical constructs or concepts that illuminate psychosocial processes common to individual who have a similar experience of the phenomenon under investigation. There has been an increase in the number of published research reports that use the grounded theory method. However, there has been less medical education research, which is based on the grounded theory tradition. The pur…
Medical Education in Iran
There is a real need for major changes in the medical education curriculum in Iran. The results of this study suggest that a move towards a curriculum that engages students as active participants in a process of lifelong learning would be highly beneficial. As clinically qualified doctors they will face many challenges in the years ahead, and a modernized curriculum should help them to acquire the necessary knowledge and develop the clinical skil…
Making sense of Cronbach's alpha
Medical educators attempt to create reliable and valid tests and questionnaires in order to enhance the accuracy of their assessment and evaluations. Validity and reliability are two fundamental elements in the evaluation of a measurement instrument. Instruments can be conventional knowledge, skill or attitude tests, clinical simulations or survey questionnaires. Instruments can measure concepts, psychomotor skills or affective values. Validity i…
Factor Analysis
Feedback to support examiners’ understanding of the standard-setting process and the performance of students
The ratings that judges or examiners use for determining pass marks and students' performance on OSCEs serve a number of essential functions in medical education assessment, and their validity is a pivotal issue. However, some types of errors often occur in ratings that require special efforts to minimise. Rater characteristics (e.g. generosity error, severity error, central tendency error or halo error) may present a source of performance irrele…
Does widening participation status affect undergraduate medical student performance; a meta-analysis of knowledge-based assessments and OSCE over a 5-year period
Reply to Christopher Harrison
Merging relative and absolute methods
Dear EditorThe Angoff method is widely used in medical education as it can be applied to a variety of assessments, such as multiple choice, OSCE and very short answer questions. However, this appro
Are three options optimal for multiple-choice questions
"Are three options optimal for multiple-choice questions?." Medical Teacher, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), p. 1
Ranking students in OSCEs
Dear EditorPerformance rating systems such as OSCEs use multiple examiners across various stations to assess the clinical performance of students for pass/fail classifications. However, OSCE-irrele
Rapid reliability assessment of Angoff standard setting
Dear EditorDifferences in performance among individual standard setters can introduce errors, leading to inappropriate pass marks. Educators emphasize the importance of standard setting in assessme
Twelve tips to aid interpretation of post-assessment psychometric reports
Post-assessments psychometric reports are a vital component of the assessment cycle to ensure that assessments are reliable, valid and fair to make appropriate pass-fail decisions. Students' scores can be summarised by examination of frequency distributions, central tendency measures and dispersion measures. Item discrimination indicies to assess the quality of items, and distractors that differentiate between students achieving or not achieving …
Twelve tips for using phenomenology as a qualitative research approach in health professions education
Phenomenology is a qualitative research approach that seeks to understand the individual meanings of lived experience. This 12 Tips article highlights the importance of understanding the philosophical foundations that inform the choice of phenomenological research study, including descriptive and interpretive phenomenology. The article provides a practical guide to the choice of the most appropriate phenomenological research approach and the proc…
Psychology (12 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Innovations in Medical Education (6 works) · Medical education (6 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Psychometrics (4 works) · Applied Psychology (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills (3 works)