Some faculty feel that a checklist is necessary to insure objectivity in the scoring of students.
Other faculty feel that a global assessment based on expert opinion is just as reliable and valid as a checklist for scoring students. During the 1997 OSCE, Drs. Jeanne Heard, Ruth Allen and Mildred Savidge undertook a study to compare checklist and the expert opinion formats. UAMS faculty used both methods at two stations-a history station and a physical exam station. In one track of the OSCE, Drs.