Journal article
Assessing Effective Teaching: What Medical Students Value When Developing Evaluation Instruments
Academic medicine, Vol.90(1), pp.94-99
01/01/2015
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000447
PMID: 25099242
Abstract
Purpose
To investigate what criteria medical students would value and use in assessing teaching skills.
Method
Fourth-year medical students at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine enrolled in a teaching elective course are required to design and use an evaluation instrument to assess effective teaching. Each class uses a similar process in developing their instruments. Since the first class in spring 2007, 193 medical students have created 36 different instruments. Three faculty evaluation experts conducted a thematic analysis of the instruments and coded the information according to what was being evaluated and what types of ratings were indicated. The data were submitted to a fourth faculty reviewer, who synthesized the information and adjusted the codes to better capture the data. Common themes and categories were detected.
Results
Four themes were identified: content ( instructor knowledgeable, teaches at level of learner, practical information), learning environment, teacher personal attributes, and teaching methods. Thirty-two descriptors were distinguished across the 36 instruments. Thirteen descriptors were present in 50% or more of the instruments. The most common rating systems were Likert scales and open comments.
Conclusions
Fourth-year medical students can offer an eclectic resource for evaluating teaching in the classroom and the clinic. Using the descriptors that were identified in greater than 50% of the evaluation instruments will provide effective measures that can be incorporated into medical teacher evaluation instruments.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Assessing Effective Teaching: What Medical Students Value When Developing Evaluation Instruments
- Creators
- Jeffrey E. Pettit - Univ Iowa, Carver Coll Med, Off Consultat & Res Med Educ, Iowa City, IA 52242 USARick D. Axelson - Univ Iowa, Carver Coll Med, Dept Family Med, Iowa City, IA 52242 USAKristi J. Ferguson - Univ Iowa, Carver Coll Med, Off Consultat & Res Med Educ, Iowa City, IA 52242 USAMarcy E. Rosenbaum - Univ Iowa, Carver Coll Med, Off Consultat & Res Med Educ, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Academic medicine, Vol.90(1), pp.94-99
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- DOI
- 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000447
- PMID
- 25099242
- ISSN
- 1040-2446
- eISSN
- 1938-808X
- Number of pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2015
- Academic Unit
- Family and Community Medicine; Pharmacy Practice and Science; Office of Consultation and Research in Medical Education; General Internal Medicine; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984297441702771
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