CLIPP Final Exam FAQ

No, you do not need to require students to complete all of CLIPP to use this exam. You could require a subset of the 32 cases in the CLIPP collection, and still use the 100-item exam.

The exam is based directly on the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP) curriculum, which details common and important presentations that all medical students should experience during their third year pediatric clerkship.

No, at this time there are no questions for Case 32 (Dermatology) and only a limited number of applicable questions for Case 24 (Toxic Ingestion). Case 32 was new last year and Case 24 was significantly revised in June 2011.

We do not currently provide customized exams.

We do provide our entire exam bank, with over 300 items, free to all subscribers, and you can use this bank to customize an exam for your institution.

We welcome your feedback at examscoring@i-intime.org.

For the 100-item exams provided to scoring schools, we provide an annual report of exam performance, including mean, median, and standard deviation of student performance from all schools that take advantage of the scoring service.

The CLIPP 100-item exam is created by pediatric clerkship leaders as an assessment tool based specifically on the Pediatric Clerkship Curriculum, as covered by the 32 cases in the CLIPP collection. It cannot be compared with other assessment tools designed to test a different knowledge base. It can be used on its own or in conjunction with other assessment tools.

In contrast to exams created at individual institutions, the CLIPP exam items have been extensively reviewed by a national committee and vetted via a rigorous validation process.

We are working on creating an online exam and would value your feedback so we can best meet your needs. Please email us at examscoring@i-intime.org to tell us about your online exam needs.

We provide a 100-item exam or the exam bank in a word document, which you can use to create your exam via Blackboard or Moodle. Programs like Respondus© can help translate and upload documents into a Learning Management System’s question format.

The exam is comprised of 90 validated items, which we score to provide your student grade. These items are the same for each rotation, and they are provided in the same order.

We recommend allotting three hours for exam completion.

If you use our scoring service, you won’t have to spend your valuable time scoring exams.

You will be able to directly compare how your students performed on this exam with the mean, median, and standard deviation of student performance from all the schools that are using the exam.

This will allow you to use national (as opposed to local) reference points to determine failing and honors level performance scores.

You will also receive four statistics reports after each exam administration, which will detail individual student performance, the distribution of student performance, the raw sores, and the validity statistics for each question.

If you choose to use the CLIPP scoring service, there is an annual $250 fee, which merely covers our overhead for processing the exam scores.

Other costs for exam scoring include:

• Bubble sheets: To help you get started, the first year you use our scoring service, we will provide you with a package of 500 bubble sheets. Your institution is responsible for these once this supply runs out. (These cost about $42 per 500 sheets).
• Shipping: Your institution is responsible for the cost of sending the bubble sheets to us for scoring. You may use whichever shipping method works best for you.

To request the exam, e-mail examscoring@i-intime.org.

Once the request has been successfully processed, you will receive an e-mail containing examination materials and instructions. The first time you use our scoring service, to help you get started, we will also supply you with a shipment of 500 bubble sheets.

Once your students have completed each exam administration, mail the bubble sheets to us. We will promptly score the exam and e-mail you the results in four statistics reports, which will detail individual student performance, the distribution of student performance, the raw sores, and the validity statistics for each question.

Questions in the CLIPP Final Exam Question Bank are based directly on the teaching points and learning objectives of CLIPP. The final exam questions were written and extensively reviewed by a select and trained group of Coucil on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP) members. The questions on the exam were part of a rigorous validation process across all scoring schools (ten US medical schools in 2009/10 and 2010/11). This year, we are offering our previously validated 90-item exam and will also validate a second 90-item exam with a select group of validation schools. We will also continue to validate items to replenish our item bank, available to all CLIPP subscribers.