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Blake, Jennifer M.; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1996
The Personal Progress Index, designed to assess students' knowledge at regular intervals, is administered at the McMaster University (Ontario) Faculty of Health Sciences three times annually. Feedback is provided to students, and accumulated student performance is determined for summative evaluation. Results over 4 classes (n=400) show it to be…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation
Donmall, B. Gillian; And Others – 1985
Three papers address issues in course evaluation and assessment of student performance in language awareness programs. The first paper concentrates on the formative evaluation of a course, during its design phase or in progress. It focuses on self-evaluation and two features of course design considered essential to course integrity: explicitness…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Curriculum Design, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods