Background: Student ratings have dominated as the primary and, frequently, only measure of teaching performance at colleges and universities for the past 50 years. Recently, there has been a trend toward augmenting those ratings with other data sources to broaden and deepen the evidence base. The 360 multisource feedback (MSF) model used in management and industry for half a century and in clin...

We present an iterative hybrid formative evaluation methodology incorporated in a Participatory Design process for an online multimedia course in Modern Greek. Our hybrid evaluation incorporates student surveys, log file analysis, solicitation of student feedback, and monitoring student discussions. The evaluation process is ongoing, and its results are incorporated in the design of the course....

This paper outlines the development and psychometric evaluation of the Assessment of Core CBT Skills (ACCS) rating scale. The ACCS aims to provide a novel assessment framework to deliver formative and summative feedback regarding therapists’ performance within observed cognitive-behavioural treatment sessions, and for therapists to rate and reflect on their own performance. Findings from three ...

Formative assessments are systematically designed instructional interventions to assess and provide feedback on students' strengths and weaknesses in the course of teaching and learning. Despite their known benefits to student attitudes and learning, medical school curricula have been slow to integrate such assessments into the curriculum. This study investigates how performance on two differen...

This paper describes the process of developing a parallel intervention for HIV-positive mothers and their young children (6-10 years) with a view to strengthening the relationship between them. Strong mother-child relationships can contribute to enhanced psychological resilience in children. The intervention was developed through action research, involving a situation analysis based on focus gr...

Formative feedback has great potential for teaching and learning in online undergraduate programmes. There is a large number of courses where the main source of feedback is provided by the instructor. This is particularly seen in subjects where assessments are designed based on specific activities which are the same for all students, and where the assessment is performed by the instructor, not ...

BACKGROUND Clinical workplaces are hectic and dynamic learning environments, which require students to take charge of their own learning. Competency development during clinical internships is a continuous process that is facilitated and guided by feedback. Limited feedback, lack of supervision and problematic assessment of clinical competencies make the development of learning instruments to su...

T clinical teaching and learning process involves different activities including assessment. No one denies the importance of assessment and its role as a main driver in the educational processes. Assessment is defined as a “process of measuring or appraising individual performance against a required standard”.1 An assessment process can be viewed as 2 complementary and overlapping models aiming...