Divsion of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of California Davis (S-TT Li), Sacramento, Calif.
Division of General and Community Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (MD Klein), Cincinnati, Ohio.
Acad Pediatr. 2020 Nov-Dec;20(8):1083-1093. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2020.07.005. Epub 2020 Jul 9.
The goal of designing innovative curricula and programs in medical education is to create interventions that will change the attitudes, knowledge, skills, and behaviors of learners in order to prepare them to contribute to the health of patients and communities they serve. Systematic evaluation allows curriculum/program developers to optimize their curriculum/program and ensure that the goals of the curriculum/program are met. While curriculum/program evaluation is distinct from educational research, when approached in a rigorous manner, curriculum/program evaluation can be published as educational scholarship. The goal of our paper is to equip readers with tools to apply a scholarly approach to curriculum/program evaluation to produce findings that will advance the field. We start by defining curricula, educational programs, learner assessment, and evaluation. We then briefly describe examples of best practice models for curriculum/program development that incorporate the critical step of planning for evaluation. Building on published work, we distinguish the use of best practice models and conceptual frameworks to inform curriculum/program development and evaluation. More specifically, we outline steps to plan an evaluation that demonstrates WHAT was effective, describes HOW the curriculum/program contributed to the outcomes achieved, and points to WHY the curriculum/program led to the outcomes observed. We conclude with key considerations for publishing findings of an evaluation, including what to include in each section of a manuscript.
医学教育中创新课程和项目的设计目标是通过干预来改变学习者的态度、知识、技能和行为，使他们能够为服务的患者和社区的健康做出贡献。系统评估可使课程/项目开发者优化课程/项目，并确保实现课程/项目的目标。虽然课程/项目评估有别于教育研究，但如果采用严谨的方法，课程/项目评估也可以作为教育学术进行发表。本文的目的是为读者提供工具，采用学术方法进行课程/项目评估，得出能推动该领域发展的研究结果。我们首先定义了课程、教育项目、学习者评估和评估。然后简要介绍了一些最佳实践课程/项目开发模式的例子，这些模式纳入了规划评估这一关键步骤。在已发表的工作基础上，我们区分了最佳实践模式和概念框架的使用，以指导课程/项目的开发和评估。更具体地说，我们概述了计划评估的步骤，该评估可以展示哪些是有效的，描述课程/项目如何促成所取得的结果，并指出课程/项目为何导致了观察到的结果。最后，我们讨论了发表评估结果的关键考虑因素，包括在稿件的每个部分应包含哪些内容。
