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To sum up
Assessing the learning needs of students and trainees is an activity that clinical teachers carry out on a day-to-day basis, both formally and informally. The skills required to do this effectively are embedded in the core characteristics of highly competent clinical teachers listed below:
- empathy with students and trainees, ability to communicate educational goals, desire to help learners improve and develop, shows concern for integrity of own judgements
- uses varied assessment tools to develop different skills in learners
- understands curriculum, assessment criteria and standards, and has appropriate expectations of learners’ performance based on learning outcomes and experience of achievement
- can identify learners’ strengths and weaknesses in relation to outcomes and assessment criteria, can advise learners on a range of strategies and different ways to achieve goals (Wood, 2007, p. 6, drawing on Sadler, 1998).
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