Surgeons as Educators A Guide for Academic Development and Teaching Excellence

31 well as interact with, and provide feedback for, the trainees. Patients need to be fully informed of their participation in t ...

32 from departmental allocated educational funding. Occasionally financial support may be available from outside sources such as ...

33 Evaluation and Feedback When introducing a new curriculum or major curricular reform to a program, it will be important to co ...

34 A successful curriculum is constantly developing and changing ideally based on a 360 degree feedback process. Understanding t ...

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36 room for other errors in the assessment process. This is why it is crucial to follow a strict process when choosing or develo ...

37 There is an important type of assessment that we will not explore in great detail: standardized tests of knowledge and reason ...

38 Once you start writing questions for your assessment, do your questions ask what you mean for them to ask? Choose your words ...

39 object made of multiple components. In surgical education, you are trying to mea- sure something complex – a skill or attitud ...

40 Self-esteem: The Rosenberg self-esteem scale is designed to measure a person’s sense of self-worth. The concept of self-estee ...

41 Your literature review will yield one of three results: The right assessment tools already exist. It’s possible that your lit ...

42 Question 4: How Does Your Target Audience Think About What You’re Trying to Measure? Designing an assessment tool is a social ...

43 gathered information of how your target audience defines the construct. You’ve updated your definition based on that feedback ...

44 Avoid jargon and technical language whenever possible: Avoid long words in gen- eral (like “conscientious”). This is a common ...

45 answer with the whole operating room team in mind or with respect only to other surgeons? to other surgeons? Perhaps she woul ...

46 We started with a simple item: My peers are conscientious and caring: Always Sometimes Never And following a few simple rul ...

47 You should provide reviewers with the definition of your construct and the full list of items you’ve developed. It is best to ...

48 There are many measures of variation (e.g., variance, standard deviations). Simple tabulations are the safest place to start: ...

49 individual items, an “item-rest” correlation is one of the most popular tests. This straightforward statistic simply tells us ...

50 demonstrated that grit scores predicted retention among cadets at West Point, as well as success among contestants in the Scr ...