Quarantining the OSCE: reflections on the Glasgow experience.

The impact of information transfer on student examination performance is debatable,[[1]] but may confer advantage to students undertaking OSCE stations later in the exam diet. An alternative strategy is to quarantine students, which prevents students who have undertaken the OSCE from being able to liaise with candidates who have not yet taken the OSCE. The case for quarantining was further strengthened by a highly publicised instance of student collusion identified in the 2016/17 examination diet at Glasgow.[5] The Year-5 OSCE was subsequently re-run under quarantine conditions in 2016/17, and the Glasgow OSCEs for Years 2, 3 and 5 have been quarantined since the 2017/18 academic year. [Extracted from the article]