Another Utilization of Mesa in the Evaluation-Grading of a Class of Medex Trainees

Abstract

A recently proposed multidimensional similarity judgment analysis methodology (the Stone-Coles method) was used again to analyze the dimensionality of another class of Medex (physician's extension) trainees as perceived by the staff of the involved Medex training project. The extracted dimensions resembled rather closely, especially the primary dimension, those extracted from judgmental data pertaining to an earlier class of trainees. The results seemed to support a contention that multidimensional scaling of judgment may be valuable to use in personnel evaluation matters such as academic grading when the basis for such evaluation-grading is limited to the opinion of others (e.g., teachers).