ABSTRACT

This chapter aims to illuminate what a complete program of assessment might look like in a whole-task curriculum based on the Ten Steps. It describes Miller's pyramid as a framework to distinguish four levels of assessment that can be related to the four blueprint components. The chapter revisits the assessment of learning tasks, with a focus on summative assessment. It also discusses the assessment of supportive information. The chapter then discusses the assessment of part-task performance and procedural information. It then discusses the assessments of domain-general skills central in the Ten Steps, such as task selection, information literacy, and deliberate practice. Workplace supervisors traditionally judge the maturity of learners by their ability to bear responsibility and to safely perform their professional tasks without supervision. These tasks are called entrustable professional activities (EPAs) and are defined as responsibilities entrusted to a learner to execute, unsupervised, once (s)he has obtained adequate competence.