Assessment, monitoring and evaluation

Assessments must be directly related to learning outcomes, be reliable, be subjected to a rigorous quality assurance process, and be accompanied by a timely feedback process. The curriculum must also be subject to a quality assurance process, whether or not a new development or innovation has taken place. Feedback should be obtained from all stakeholders, action taken based on the findings and these actions fed back to the stakeholders.

Please outline your assessment strategy, describe the types of assessment you use and provide a rationale for your choice. Outline your process for curriculum monitoring and evaluation.

Examples of evidence

• Outline the process by which assessment is matched to learning outcomes. Please provide a sample blueprint of (a) a written examination and (b) a clinical assessment which demonstrates the link between assessment and learning outcomes. Explain how you assess clinical attachments, projects & electives and professionalism.
• Outline your policy for both formative and summative assessment feedback to students, including timeliness. Can you provide any evidence that assessment has promoted learning?
• Outline the methods you use for validating your assessments. Describe any external review of your assessments (if applicable).
• Explain how your curriculum is monitored and evaluated, by whom and how frequently. Explain the process for reviewing these evaluations. Summarise any findings from the evaluation and indicate any modifications to your curriculum that have taken place as a result of evaluation (Quality Improvement).
• Provide evidence that the findings from the evaluations are fed back to those who supplied the feedback (closure of feedback loop). Please also indicate if you refer to any external and more objective methods of evaluating the outcomes of your curriculum (e.g. examination results, performance of your graduates in the workplace, their career choices and practice patterns and their contribution to the workforce).