1. Identify common competencies or expected learning outcomes for courses, discipline specific general education requirements, and/or programs. 2. Establish a program of systematic assessment of the competencies using direct measures that are most appropriate for the discipline/program. 3. Build in systematic discipline review of assessment results. 4. Use review/results to improve instruction/...

Self-assessment tools have previously been used to assess the impact of a faculty development program on the teaching skills of medical educators. In this study, we aimed to assess the impact of a faculty development program on the teaching performances of faculty members in relation to their medical disciplines and academic positions. A faculty-training program consisted of "training skills" a...

Electrical Engineering (EE) programs seeking accreditation from the EAC of ABET must demonstrate that they satisfy eight general Accreditation Criteria, plus any program specific criteria. Two of the most challenging and debated criteria are: Criterion 3 Student Outcomes (SOs), and Criterion 4 Continuous Improvement (CI). At the University of Portland, to prepare our EE program for a successful...

INTRODUCTION The Diabetes, Multidisciplinary, Experiential (DIAMANTE) program was established to enhance collaboration between retail pharmacists and the diabetes care team in the health institutions through interprofessional education. This article describes the program and reports on an evaluation of its impact on attitudes, knowledge, and confidence of the participants in managing diabetic p...

OBJECTIVES To develop a formalized, comprehensive, peer-driven teaching assessment program and a valid and reliable assessment tool. METHODS A volunteer taskforce was formed and a peer-assessment program was developed using a multistep, sequential approach and the Peer Observation and Evaluation Tool (POET). A pilot study was conducted to evaluate the efficiency and practicality of the proces...

Computer programming lends itself to automated assessment. With appropriate software tools program correctness can be measured, along with an indication of quality according to a set of metrics. Furthermore, the regularity of program code allows plagiarism detection to be an integral part of the tools that support assessment. In this paper, we consider a submission and assessment system, called...

1. Abstract Assessment of the degree program objectives and the individual course outcomes are critical components of an overall degree program review and evaluation. When assessment is in a form of a test, the administration, collection and the final aggregate report generation become somewhat time consuming and generally lags behind. In this paper we present web-based software that is primari...