Office of Educational Assessment (OEA) at UConn Health Center

Office of Educational Assessment (OEA)

chart The Office of Educational Assessment (OEA) is part of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. This Office serves the Medical, Dental, and Graduate Schools at the UConn Health Center in four significant ways:

Collecting student evaluations of course data through on-line surveys in all three Schools is a primary function of the OEA. Summary reports created from this data are provided to the course directors. The office also provides an analysis of the 1st and 2nd year Basic Medical Science course results to the course directors including a comparative analysis to previous years' results. This information assists the course leadership in making decisions about the curriculum.

· The survey data also supply OEA with students' opinions on how well they are evaluated by a course. The Course Directors use the data to enhance the courses' current evaluation methods.

· The OEA helps evaluate courses in the Medical School. This is promoted through the Course and Curriculum Evaluation Committee's (CCEC) intensive evaluation of each medical school course every three years.

· Collecting faculty evaluations of medical students in their 3^rd year clinical rotations through on-line surveys is a relatively new function of the OEA. In April 2004, this office began administering a new on-line, off-site server-based system called MyEvaluations.com. For the 2003-2004 academic year, the Student Continuity Practice evaluations of students by their community-based preceptors was executed using this new on-line system. In 2004-2005, faculty began using this system to evaluate third year medical students in their clinical rotations. With this system, a variety of reports can be generated on-line so as to view completed student evaluation reports as well as providing other useful data for the MAX and Inpatient leadership. This on-line system has proved invaluable in providing comprehensive and easily available information to assist in formulating the medical students' Dean's letters.

Our Charge

The charge of the OEA is to be a service center to collect data involving courses, faculty, and the curriculum as a whole. The Course Directors are provided with data and analysis to make necessary decisions about the curriculum. In April 2004 the OEA began serving as a clearinghouse function for evaluations of students on their clinical rotations.

The On-Line Surveys

Through the use of Perseus Professional Survey Software interfacing with the UConn Health Center's Blackboard system, the OEA is able to successfully collect large amounts of data from all three schools. The survey software allows for the creation of reports summarizing the data in various formats.

The OEA began the above on-line survey process in September 2001. For the 2005-2006 academic year, over 250 reports were distributed to the leadership within the Medical, Dental, and Graduate Schools . The process continues to expand and evolve throughout all three Schools.

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Contact Information

Diane Blahun, B.S.
Admin.& Clinical Systems Coordinator for OEA
blahun@nso1.uchc.edu

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Office of Educational Assessment
School of Medicine
University of Connecticut Health Center
263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT 06030-1925
Tel: (860) 679-4590, Fax: (860) 679-1832

Send comments or questions to: blahun@nso1.uchc.edu
Last updated on December 20, 2007
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