SKURT: Quality Improvement System with Comprehensive Weekly Digital Student Group Feedback
2017 (English)In: Educational Research Applications, E-ISSN 2575-7032, Vol. 2017, no 5, article id RCA-124Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Students’ role in evaluation and rating of teachers and education has been extensively researched for nearly a century. Applied worldwide, students’ ratings account for the majority of the available data.We created a new quality improvement system, SKURT, using digital online weekly combined quantitative, ten-graded scale, and qualitative, open-ended free text, group feedback from medical students. Students rated all educational, non-clerkship, items throughout the entire medical program, spanning eleven terms. The rating process is since 2008 an integral part of a medical program at a Swedish university. The results are, after a screening process, semi-publicly available on-demand, for students and faculty, creating a feedback loop enabling continuous improvement of quality.A thorough literature search of students rating of teaching found no other corresponding weekly group rating system spanning all educational items. Quality improvement systems based on similar principles as SKURT can uncover problem areas that are difficult to find using other rating systems and has the potential to circumvent several biases, risks and shortcomings of traditional rating systems in current use.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Gavin Publishers , 2017. Vol. 2017, no 5, article id RCA-124
Keywords [en]
Medical Education; Online Evaluation; Problem-Based Learning; Quality Improvement; Rating of Teachers; Student Evaluation
National Category
Other Health Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-145282OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-145282DiVA, id: diva2:1184133
2018-02-202018-02-202018-03-08Bibliographically approved