Reflective Assessment of Learning Outcomes [RALO] in Basic Medical Sciences Subjects - [TAU MODEL]
Abstract:
The
assessment of learning outcomes at the program level has been a topic of international
interest as a method for quality assessment and ongoing program quality enhancement.
According to UNESCO report, increasing global integration and exchange of both students
and instructors has been an important international objective in higher education
in recent years. This trend requires institutions to identify standards of quality,
resulting in an increased emphasis on both learning outcomes and evidence from course
assessments to demonstrate that students have mastered the expected learning.
Medical educators are increasingly laying
emphasis in the assessment and learning outcome, and over a period of time standardized
assessment methods like, OSPE and OSCE came into existence and they are widely used
in many institution and also by the international examining bodies worldwide.
However, there aren’t many assessment methods
devised, wherein the medical students themselves can assess their level of understanding
in basic medical sciences. Continuous methods of understanding the level of knowledge
gained by a student will give him/her insight into his learning outcomes and as
well as to the teachers.
This concept paper provides an overview
of experience gained in developing a self-assessment methods of learning outcome
of the medical students.
In
2014 Texila American University created the concept of Reflective Assessment of
Learning Outcome, initially this method of assessment was experimented on the distance
and blended learning programs, having found it to be very effective in terms of
understanding the learning outcomes, this model was implemented for the Doctor of
Medicine [MD] students in the year 2016.
Keywords: RALO
– Reflective Assessment of Learning Outcome.
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