Professor MOHSEN TAVAKOL's Outputs (10)

Twelve tips for using phenomenology as a qualitative research approach in health professions education (2025)
Journal Article
Tavakol, M., & Sandars, J. (2025). Twelve tips for using phenomenology as a qualitative research approach in health professions education. Medical Teacher, https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2025.2478871

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 phenomenolo... Read More about Twelve tips for using phenomenology as a qualitative research approach in health professions education.

Rapid reliability assessment of Angoff standard setting: A novel online tool using generalizability theory (2024)
Journal Article
Tavakol, M., Stewart, C., Sharpe, C. C., & O'Brien, D. G. (in press). Rapid reliability assessment of Angoff standard setting: A novel online tool using generalizability theory. Medical Teacher, 46(12), 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159x.2024.2402560

Ensuring fairness in assessment in health professions education: rapid analysis tools to detect differential item functioning across groups (2024)
Journal Article
Tavakol, M., Stewart, C., & Sharpe, C. C. (2024). Ensuring fairness in assessment in health professions education: rapid analysis tools to detect differential item functioning across groups. International Journal of Medical Education, 15, 80-83. https://doi.org/10.5116/ijme.6694.de69

Determining intra-standard-setter inconsistency in the Angoff method using the three-parameter item response theory (2023)
Journal Article
Tavakol, M., O'Brien, D., & Stewart, C. (in press). Determining intra-standard-setter inconsistency in the Angoff method using the three-parameter item response theory. International Journal of Medical Education, 14, 123-130. https://doi.org/10.5116/ijme.64ed.e296

Objectives:
To measure intra-standard-setter variability and assess the variations between the pass marks obtained from Angoff ratings, guided by the latent trait theory as the theoretical model.

Methods:
A non-experimental cross-sectional stu... Read More about Determining intra-standard-setter inconsistency in the Angoff method using the three-parameter item response theory.

Merging relative and absolute methods: The IRT-Angoff method for pass mark identification. (2023)
Journal Article
Tavakol, M., Stewart, C., Sharpe, C. C., & O'Brien, D. G. (in press). Merging relative and absolute methods: The IRT-Angoff method for pass mark identification. Medical Teacher, 45(11), 1309. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2023.2245549

Twelve tips to aid interpretation of post-assessment psychometric reports (2023)
Journal Article
Tavakol, M., O’Brien, D. G., Sharpe, C. C., & Stewart, C. (2023). Twelve tips to aid interpretation of post-assessment psychometric reports. Medical Teacher, 46(2), 188-195. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159x.2023.2241624

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 distri... Read More about Twelve tips to aid interpretation of post-assessment psychometric reports.

The importance of crafting a good introduction to scholarly research: strategies for creating an effective and impactful opening statement. (2023)
Journal Article
Tavakol, M., & O'Brien, D. (in press). The importance of crafting a good introduction to scholarly research: strategies for creating an effective and impactful opening statement. International Journal of Medical Education, 14, 84-87. https://doi.org/10.5116/ijme.6499.82af

Psychometrics for physicians: everything a clinician needs to know about assessments in medical education (2022)
Journal Article
Tavakol, M., & O'Brien, D. (2022). Psychometrics for physicians: everything a clinician needs to know about assessments in medical education. International Journal of Medical Education, 13, 100-106. https://doi.org/10.5116/ijme.625f.bfb1

Assessments in medical education, with consequent decisions about performance and competence, have both a profound and far-reaching impact on students and their future careers. Physicians who make decisions about students must be confident that these... Read More about Psychometrics for physicians: everything a clinician needs to know about assessments in medical education.

The Bayesian borderline regression method: Identifying pass marks for small cohorts (2018)
Journal Article
Tavakol, M., Pinner, G., & Doody, G. A. (2019). The Bayesian borderline regression method: Identifying pass marks for small cohorts. Medical Teacher, 41(6), 723. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159x.2018.1522428

Coefficient Alpha (2018)
Book Chapter
Tavakol, M. (2018). Coefficient Alpha. In B. B. Frey (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781506326139.n119

Social science measurement requires scores that are both valid and reliable. Reliability refers to the amount of random fluctuation in a set of scores. One of the most popular methods for estimating the reliability of test scores is coefficient α, wh... Read More about Coefficient Alpha.