Evaluation Minutes July 1999
Evaluation Committee Meeting Minutes
July 16, 1999
Members Present: Kelly Blake, Jodie Jackson, Helen Baker, Annie
McIntosh,
Trisha Petitte, Cecil Pollard
Others present: Jennifer Allen, Hilda Heady, Elizabeth Richmond, Amy
Thomas, Lee
Ann Vecellio
Members absent: Ron Fleshman, Randy Lowe, David Martin, Jo Ann Raines, Penny
Rose, Steve Thomas, Tom Whittier
Corrections to May Minutes
The following changes were made to the May meeting minutes:
· the statement that the Site Coordinators would recommend a nominee for
Chair of the Evaluation Committee was incorrect; Site Coordinators were asked
to suggest names of field faculty to serve on the committee.
· The evaluation form referred to was for the entire RHEP curriculum,
not
just the IDS.
Changes were approved and noted.
New Evaluation Committee Chair and Co-chair Elected
Kelly Blake was elected new Chair of the Evaluation committee. Jodie Jackson
will be the co-chair. The Site Coordinator representation to the Evaluation
Committee for the upcoming year will be Steve Thomas and Kelly Blake. Penny
Rose will be the alternate.
Kelly Blake will find out who the field faculty representation on the
Evaluation Committee will be for the upcoming year.
Student evaluation of Rural Field Experience
Tricia Petitte reported that her office is still working on compiling the 1998
open-ended responses of the Student Evaluation of Rural Field Experience.
This
will have to be completed before the first quarter of 1999 is done.
The following will be part of the quarterly report on the Student
Evaluation of
Rural Field Experience:
1) mean score
2) frequency of response (for consortia with large enough n only)
3) comparison to other sites
The committee asked Hilda to check with Mike McCarthy regarding the evaluation
of the on-line Student Evaluation of Rural Field Experience by the Student
Advisory Committee.
IDS Evaluation
Mark Allen is still working on the IDS Evaluation form that will be put
directly on TRACKER.
The Evaluation Committee was informed that the IDS evaluation form by faculty
was voted to be eliminated. It is still used by some sites, however, because
faculty use this form in determining the student’s grade.
It has been proposed that the site coordinators evaluate students for the 20%
of their time devoted to IDS and community outreach and give this
evaluation to
the field professor for no more than 20% of the students’ grade. The Rivers
and Bridges consortium has developed an evaluation tool to do this. This tool
will be revised and taken to the site coordinator meeting for discussion then
to the School Committee and Evaluation Committee.
Student Resistance to IDS and Community Outreach
Annie McIntosh expressed concern that students are still resisting IDS and
community outreach and would like to further explore strategies to impart the
importance of these activities to students. The committee agreed that Trisha
should pull out the comments on IDS from the 1998 data and pass this
information on to the Evaluation Committee to review before the next meeting.
Multiple Grading Issue
Hilda noted that the School Committee plans to discuss the multiple grading
issue (where grades from different faculty are often different for the same
student) problem with the site coordinators and the medical school
coordinators
on August 24.
Verification of Student Rotation
This will be the first year for verification of student rotation from TRACKER.
Thank You Cecil!
Hilda took this opportunity to formally thank Cecil for all of the hard
work he
has done as Chair of the Evaluation Committee over the years and expressed
interest in his continuing participation on the committee. THANK YOU,
CECIL!!!!!
Advisory Panel Committee Reporting Schedule
There is a new Advisory Panel reporting schedule. The Evaluation Committee
will be reporting in September and March.
Evaluation Committee Meetings
Evaluation committee will continue to meet on the same cycle as the Advisory
Panel:
March
May
July
September 20
November
Meetings will continue to be from 10:30 am 12:00 noon.