Fig 1.
PRISMA flow chart.
Table 1.
Study characteristics.
Table 2.
Quality appraisal of the included studies.
Fig 2.
Meta-analysis of Cronbach’s alpha on OSCEs in physical therapy students.
Forest plot presenting the meta-analyzed estimate on Cronbach’s alpha. Each square presents the results of an individual study with the size of the square being proportional to the weights used in the meta-analysis and the horizontal lines indicating the 95% confidence intervals. The solid vertical line represents no reliability, and the solid diamond indicates the overall summary measure.
Fig 3.
Funnel plot to for publication bias.
Funnel plot presenting the studies alpha values from OSCEs, were each circle represents a study.
Fig 4.
Meta-analysis of Pearson correlation between OSCEs stations in physical therapy students.
Forest plot presenting the meta-analyzed estimate on Pearson’s r. Each square presents the results of an individual study with the size of the square being proportional to the weights used in the meta-analysis and the horizontal lines indicating the 95% confidence intervals. The solid vertical line represents no reliability, and the solid diamond indicates the overall summary measure.
Fig 5.
Meta-analysis of Pearson correlation between individual OSCEs stations’ score and total score in physical therapy students.
Forest plot presenting the meta-analyzed estimate on Pearson’s r. Each square presents the results of an individual study with the size of the square being proportional to the weights used in the meta-analysis and the horizontal lines indicating the 95% confidence intervals. The solid diamond indicates the overall summary measure.
Fig 6.
Meta-analysis of intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) on OSCEs in physical therapy students.
Forest plot presenting the meta-analyzed estimate on ICC. Each square presents the results of an individual study with the size of the square being proportional to the weights used in the meta-analysis and the horizontal lines indicating the 95% confidence intervals. The solid diamond indicates the overall summary measure.
Fig 7.
Meta-analysis of kappa coefficient for inter-rater reliability between standardised patients on OSCE’s in physical therapy students.
Forest plot presenting the meta-analyzed estimate on kappa coefficient. Each square presents the results of an individual study with the size of the square being proportional to the weights used in the meta-analysis and the horizontal lines indicating the 95% confidence intervals. The solid diamond indicates the overall summary measure.
Fig 8.
Meta-analysis of kappa coefficient for intra-rater reliability between standardised patients on OSCE’s in physical therapy students.
Forest plot presenting the meta-analyzed estimate on kappa coefficient. Each square presents the results of an individual study with the size of the square being proportional to the weights used in the meta-analysis and the horizontal lines indicating the 95% confidence intervals. The solid diamond indicates the overall summary measure.
Table 3.
Examination requirements for international candidates.