Blinded Versus Unblinded Evaluation: Effects on Student Clinical Performance Ratings.

Key Points

• The aim is to assess how being blinded or unblinded to student self-assessments affects clinical instructors' ratings.
• Examined differences in clinical performance ratings by instructors who are blinded versus those who are unblinded to student self-assessments.
• Focused on Professional Behaviors and Patient Management items on the Clinical Instructor Evaluation Tool (CIET).
• Clinical instructors rated student performance lower when blind to the self-assessments.
• Viewing self-assessments biased the clinical instructors' assessment of students.