How Calibrate Helps
Calibrate reports deliver instant, actionable results to students, and provide a unique look at cohort and student summary performance for faculty. The newest reporting options also include detailed student reports to support coaching and remediation.
Calibrate is available at no additional cost with all institutional Curricular Partner subscriptions, or by course for one or more course subscriptions. If you are an Aquifer subscriber and would like to use Calibrate with your learners, contact the Aquifer Program Service Administrator at your program to request to be designated as a Lead Course Administrator so you can assign assessments.
The 25-40 board-style vignette questions in each Calibrate assessment are comprehensive to all cases in the Aquifer course, and mapped to the learning objectives and teaching points.
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Each question includes a certainty rating
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Two separate exams are available per course, each with different questions
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All questions were developed by expert educators
Using Calibrate both early and late in a course is ideal, as it provides data about students’ learning at critical, formative touchpoints. If your rotation doesn’t fit with this best practice of assigning Calibrate twice, consider using the early version as a pre-test or mid-rotation checkpoint, or the late version as prep for a final exam.
- Educators set a window for students to take the exam on their own.
- Students complete the assessment on their own time, without needing a proctor.
- Students receive immediate feedback during the exam and results as soon as they finish.
Student Performance Reports
THOROUGH ANALYSIS & DEEP INSIGHTS
Student reports provide detailed information to illuminate knowledge gaps and drive efficient study planning. Reports include:
- Summary of performance & comparison between early & late assessments
- Detailed performance by learning objective/teaching point, including accuracy and certainty ratings
- Easy next steps with linked teaching points and related cases for full clinical context
- Sort options within the report to easily view areas that were not accurate or lacked certainty
MAXIMIZE YOUR STUDY TIME
Students have the ability to directly add Aquifer cases from their Calibrate reports (and now within their exam feedback) to a to-do list. From there, they can build a learning plan to share with a coach or preceptor. Features include:
- Easy ability to add cases with notes to a to-do list
- Prompts to reflect on results to find key insights, determine next steps, and create an accountability plan
- Share directly with your coach
HIGHLIGHTING CURRICULAR GAPS
Compare cohort performance across early and late administrations of the assessment, and find curricular gaps easily by seeing cohort performance by system and clinical focus–and at a granualar level by teaching point and learning objective. See at a glance exactly where your students are succeeding and where they need additional help. You can even compare results across cohorts to get a big-picture view of your curriculum.
IDENTIFY AT-RISK STUDENTS
High-level student performance summaries support early identification of students in need of coaching or remediation. Results are color-coded and easy to sort, with access to notes to drive coaching conversations. Zoom in on detailed student results to inform coaching conversations and support students in identifying trends and next steps.
TRACK PROGRESS ACROSS ASSESSMENTS
Easily view student progress across multiple assessments and disciplines–and jump into individual student results if more detail is needed.
