Evaluation: Mission
The Office for Educational Development and Evaluation is responsible for the implementation and evaluation of centralized systems for faculty, student and course evaluation. The purpose of this evaluation system has both formative and evaluative aspects. With regard to the former, the purpose is to provide reliable and valid feedback to course directors, faculty (lecturers, small group leaders, lab instructors, etc), and students in order to promote growth and improvement in course organization, teaching activities, and student skills and competencies. With regard to the latter, the evaluation system provides a record for course review purposes, promotion and tenure purposes (faculty advancement) and student grades (competencies).
LCME Standards
E. Evaluation of Program Effectiveness
ED-46. A medical school must collect and use a variety of outcome data, including national norms of accomplishment, to demonstrate the extent to which its educational program objectives are being met.
Schools should collect outcome data on student performance during and after medical school appropriate to document the achievement of the school's educational program objectives. The kinds of outcome data that could serve this purpose include performance on national licensure examinations, performance in courses/clerkships and other internal measures related to educational program objectives, academic progress and program completion rates, acceptance into residency programs, assessments of program directors and graduates on graduates' preparation in areas related to educational program objectives, including the professional behavior of their graduates.
ED-47. In assessing program quality, schools must consider student evaluations of their courses and teachers, as well as a variety of other measures.
It is expected that schools will have a formal process to collect and use information from students on the quality of courses and clerkships, which could include such measures as questionnaires (written or online), focus groups, or other structured data collection tools. Other measures could include peer review and external evaluation.
