Seven Goals for Effective Program Assessment.

The dramatic growth of online education over the past two decades is requiring colleges to make a shift from fragmented approaches to program planning and implementation towards a framework integrating both into a coherent support system. This article provides an overview of an emerging holistic framework for planning and implementation of online programs calling for shared strategic planning needs assessment strategies, and establishing program consensus. Guided by a program vision, curriculum and instructional strategies are identified along with internal and external supports needed for successful implementation. The framework suggests demand-driven strategic planning, benchmarking approaches to implementation practices, and interactive feedback to ensure effective program planning and implementation.

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Development of a Pulmonary Workshop for Organ Recovery Coordinators’ Continuing Medical Education

Progress in Transplantation ◽

10.1177/1526924820958113 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 30 (4) ◽

pp. 372-375

Author(s):

Nicholas R. Henry ◽

Donna D. Gardner ◽

Nathan Rodrigues

Keyword(s):

Continuing Education ◽

Professional Education ◽

Organ Procurement ◽

Program Assessment ◽

Management Skills ◽

Mechanical Ventilators ◽

Hands On ◽

Before And After ◽

Specialized Education ◽

Organ Recovery

Organ recovery coordinators (ORCs) have varied professional education backgrounds; however, based on their specialized education, their training may not have included in-depth mechanical ventilation and pulmonary management. An 8-hour pulmonary workshop was developed in collaboration between an organ procurement organization and a university-based respiratory care department. The workshop focused on pulmonary management and hands-on laboratory exercises using mechanical ventilators. A program assessment questionnaire was completed by participants following the workshop, which requested their self-reported comfort/familiarity with pulmonary management skills before and after the workshop on a 5-point Likert scale. Following the pulmonary workshop, the mean ORC comfort/familiarity for all pulmonary management skills increased significantly ( P < .01). This program suggests ORCs can develop a greater awareness and comfort with pulmonary management by participating in a continuing education pulmonary workshop. Continuing education initiatives focused on pulmonary management of donor patients using hands-on competencies should be part of the ORCs practice improvement efforts.

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Comprehensive Five-Year Program Assessment Study

Journal of Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness ◽

10.5325/jasseinsteffe.5.1.0001 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Crowell ◽

Calamidas

Keyword(s):

Program Assessment ◽

Assessment Study

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Specialization-Specific Course Assessments Integrated for Program Assessment

Education Research International ◽

10.1155/2012/987543 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2012 ◽

pp. 1-10 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Qurban A. Memon ◽

Adnan Harb ◽

Shakeel Khoja

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Program Assessment ◽

Assessment Process ◽

Industrial Environment ◽

Engineering Program ◽

Software Program ◽

Program Application

The program assessment process combines assessments from individual courses to generate final program assessment to match accreditation benchmarks. In developing countries, industrial environment is not diversified to allow graduating engineers to seek jobs in all disciplines or specializations of an engineering program. Hence, it seems necessary to seek evolution of an engineering program assessment for specialized requirements of the industry. This paper describes how specialization-specific courses’ assessments are grouped per requirements and then integrated towards overall program assessment. A software program application is developed to automate this development to reduce assessment work and show equivalently as integration of specialization-specific assessments per outcome per term. The implementation also shows how outcomes are integrated per specialization-specific courses in order to judge the implementation of the program assessment. This effort is expected to help stake holders of the program to judge evolution and quality of specialization tracks vis-à-vis expectations of the local industry.

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