Illustrating the Psychometric Construct of Family Medicine on the American Board of Family Medicine’s Examinations

At AERA 2015, we presented a paper entitled “Illustrating the Psychometric Construct of Family Medicine on the American Board of Family Medicine’s Examinations” which may have been more appropriately entitled “How we stole Jack Stenner’s Lexile Map…and how you can too”. The objective of this paper was to: (1) to create a visual representation of the construct of the examination that is easy to understand for physicians who may not have the appropriate psychometric and measurement background necessary to fully grasp an abstract concept such as an exam construct, and (2) to illustrate the method used to create the visual representation so that others may utilize this resource for their own exams.

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