Evaluación de la calidad lingüístico-discursiva en textos disciplinares: propuesta de un instrumento analítico para valorar la producción escrita en la formación de médicos

Abstract

The teaching and evaluation of writing are essential activities in any area, especially in Medicine, which is a highly specialized discipline. However, professors, who have received training in medicine but not in didactics or writing assessment, often lack adequate tools to evaluate the linguisticdiscursive aspects of the texts produced by their students. Our aim is to propose a contextualized evaluation instrument for assessing the linguistic-discursive quality of disciplinary texts produced by students of Medicine degrees. For this, a qualitative study through a case study design were developed in order to generate an analytical rubric for guiding teaching and assessment of writing in medical training. The elaboration process of the instrument included the revision of different inputs from a Medical degree program, which allowed us to identify the linguistic-discursive properties that these specialized texts should have and the corresponding aspects that should be evaluated by the disciplinary teachers. The instrument was made up of 17 dimensions, grouped into four macro dimensions: communicative situation, communication of specialized knowledge in Medicine, global and sentence structure, and normative. After several validation procedures, the final version of the instrument obtained a considerable agreement for content validity (K=0.6) and an almost perfect agreement for intercoder reliability (K=0.9). In conclusion, this instrument will allow obtaining more precise information regarding the level of acquisition of the writing competence along the training of doctors as well as defining intervention strategies according to the needs of the disciplinary community.