Table 2.

Pearson’s r, Fisher’s Confidence Intervals (FCI) of ρ-value and p-value of correlation analyses between Formative Assessment (FA) and Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE), FA and Progress Test (PT) and OSCE and PT.

Correlation	Pearson’s r	FCI	p-value
Pool data
FA x OSCE	0.39	0.2881 ≤ ρ ≤ 0.4773	<0.001
FA x PT	0.25	0.1461 ≤ ρ ≤ 0.3542	<0.001
OSCE x PT	0.27	0.1656 ≤ ρ ≤ 0.3715	<0.001
4th semester
FA x OSCE	0.25	−0.01990 ≤ ρ ≤ 0.4889	0.069
FA x PT	0.26	−0.009743 ≤ ρ ≤ 0.4966	0.059
OSCE x PT	0.25	−0.02551 ≤ ρ ≤ 0.4846	0.075
8th semester
FA x OSCE	0.48	0.2834 ≤ ρ ≤ 0.6451	<0.001
FA x PT	0.29	0.05866 ≤ ρ ≤ 0.4886	0.015
OSCE x PT	0.32	0.08525 ≤ ρ ≤ 0.5087	0.006