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Student evaluation: its worth for course tutors

R Philipp

    Medical Education
    |May 1, 1980
    PubMed
    Summary
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    Student feedback on the Medicine in the Community course is valuable for improving teaching. However, tutors find the feedback most useful when they can identify their specific contributions within the summarized results.

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    Area of Science:

    • Medical Education
    • Health Professions Education

    Background:

    • The 'Medicine in the Community' course is a 9-week program for final-year medical students.
    • Student evaluations are crucial for assessing and enhancing educational programs.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To evaluate the utility of student feedback for course tutors in planning teaching.
    • To determine if student opinion influences pedagogical improvements.

    Main Methods:

    • Final-year medical students completed evaluation questionnaires rating course components on value, interest, and presentation.
    • Tutors received summarized student evaluations.
    • A subsequent questionnaire assessed tutors' perceptions of feedback usefulness.

    Main Results:

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    • Student opinion is actively sought and generally considered useful by tutors.
    • The usefulness of feedback is contingent on tutors' ability to discern their individual contributions from the summarized data.

    Conclusions:

    • Student feedback is a valuable tool for medical education enhancement.
    • Effective feedback mechanisms require clear attribution of contributions to be maximally beneficial for educators.