Going beyond hawks and doves – Measuring degrees of examiner misalignment in OSCEs

In challenging the 'hawks'/'doves' paradigm, this work presents a detailed empirical analysis of a new misalignment metric in a particular high-stakes context and gives a range of evidence of its contribution to overall OSCE quality control processes and of improved fairness to candidates over time. The paper concludes with comments on developing the metric to contexts where there are multiple parallel circuits which will allows its practical application to a broader set of OSCE contexts.