An Index of Studentsʼ Satisfaction with Instruction

Do quality indicators for general practice teaching practices predict good outcomes for students?

“…[21] The physical environment score is made up of a number of factors that were agreed in Cotton et al's work [13] to be important indicators of quality. The absence of a significant relationship between student OSCE performance and faculty perception of the practices' enthusiasm for teaching is interesting; the characteristics of practice teachers, [3,13,22,23,24] especially their enthusiasm for teaching [3,13] have been seen as important in influencing outcomes for students. However, the reliability of our assessments of the enthusiasm of practice teachers is unknown and may be influenced by factors such as relationships within a community of practice [11,12] and local opinion or hearsay.…”

Efforts to Enhance Operating Room Teaching

“…Although opinion is split over the appropriateness of students' evaluations of faculty for high-stakes decisions such as promotion and tenure, most researchers addressing this issue support the use of student ratings of faculty teaching for the purposes of formative feedback, faculty development, and instructional improvement. 8 Faculty cannot improve their teaching in the operating room if they do not fully understand those teaching behaviors that support or thwart learning. Global operating room teaching ratings can help identify those faculty viewed by their learners as weak, moderate, or strong operating room teachers.…”

Continuous Curricular Feedback

“…Although there is a good correlation between evaluations performed at the end of a learning experience such as a lecture assessed by an end-of-the course evaluation, 10 there is also evidence that a continuous improvement model using more timely evaluations may substantially improve the reliability of ratings. Although there is a good correlation between evaluations performed at the end of a learning experience such as a lecture assessed by an end-of-the course evaluation, 10 there is also evidence that a continuous improvement model using more timely evaluations may substantially improve the reliability of ratings.…”