Further challenges in measuring communication skills: accounting for actor effects in standardised patient assessments

Context  Subjective rating scales for communication skills may yield more personally meaningful responses than more standardised rating schemes. It is unclear, however, whether such evaluations may be overly biased by respondents’ rating styles, which may lead to unreliable measurement of examinees’ communication skills.

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