In this final session, we will focus on how a faculty member can make sense out of all the diverse evaluation topics that have been addressed in the winter series and in what way they might come together to create a practical evaluation system.  Just as courses and learning experiences weave together to make a curriculum, discrete course evaluations, learner assessment tools and standardized tests are best employed as part of a broader plan to develop an evaluation system that helps decision-makers assist faculty to strengthen educational programs and improve learning for our students.  In other words, most evaluation strategies do not exist as independent entities; rather they all contribute to a larger system. 

In this one-hour audio seminar, Dr. Henry will address what makes for a healthy evaluation system and then review what to look for in your own institution’s evaluation systems that may indicate problems.  Finally, she will discuss recent trends in educational evaluation (e.g. ACGME evaluation tool-box) that may help us all make decisions on what to evaluate and what strategies may work best.