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 c )      Identify other professional organizations (at least one that is researcher-focused and one that is practitioner-focused) that fit with your content area interests. • Examine membership mission/purpose of the organization; membership requirements, process, and benefits; meetings/conference info; and publications. -           Prepare a brief (~1 paragraph) summary of your findings for each association, comparing and contrasting it with AERA. Post your summary on the class website.   1.      AAMC (American Academy of Medical Colleges): practitioner-focused   Membership is at the organizational level. Schools are members allowing their students, faculty, and staff access to resources. So this group focuses on services it offers to institutions and services it offers to medical school students. Medical students can access test preparation materials, information about resi...
 b )      Check the AERA webpage to find online searchable conference schedule. Make an entry in your blog to share the following to share your findings from doing the following: 1.      Identify at least 5 sessions you would have been interested in attending at the most recent, annual conference. You may search by keywords, author names, SIGs, etc... ) ·        Equity and Assessment in the Post-COVID-19 Era ·        The Science of Effective Mentoring in STEMM – A Report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine ·        Welcoming Orientation for New Members and First-Time Attendees ·         Toward More Relevant Testing Standards for Researchers: Standards Roundtable ·        Transforming Sciences Education by Fostering Students’ Creativity and Critical ...

Wonderments 22-25

  I wonder if interventions to increase diversity in medical school faculty and administrators primarily targeting physicians?  I wonder if minority and women non-physician administrators and faculty have the same rate of promotion, leadership opportunities, and retention as physician faculty and administrators in a medical school setting? I wonder how is the experience of non-physician faculty and administrators in a medical school different from physician faculty and administrators?   I wonder how to bridge the gap between PhD, EDD, and MD in a medical school setting so that each feels valued.

Wonderment 13-21

  I wonder how to analyze organizational culture as it relates to bias. There are tools to measure bias, but they aren’t generally shared with others and are for personal use. So how do you measure bias in a culture as a whole?   I wonder how to measure perceptions of non-physician faculty at a medical school regarding their sense of value? It seems that any questions one would ask would lead the survey participant in some way.   I wonder if interventions work on reducing gender discrimination. Gains have happened but are they because of interventional changes or wholesale cultural changes.    I wonder how emotional intelligence is best learned.   I wonder why toxic administrators aren’t recognized and removed more frequently. I wonder if a change in one key leadership role is enough to change an entire institutional culture. How many/what does it take?   I wonder how anxiety and depression interact in the formation of a scholarly (or professional) ide...

Wonderments 8-12

I  wonder if we are measuring what we think we are measuring when we assess students using activities such as presentations or discussions. I often thing we end up measuring professional presentation and interpersonal communication skills only. Wright, S. R., Boyd, V. A., & Ginsburg, S. (2019). The Hidden Curriculum of Compassionate Care: Can Assessment Drive Compassion?.  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges ,  94 (8), 1164–1169. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000002773 I wonder how to perform a needs assessment to determine what department chairs need from a faculty evaluation process. I wonder about the effect of periodic self-assessments throughout a program of study on students’ development of practice-based learning and assessment skills. I wonder at what point does survey fatigue kick in. How do we optimally get information from students without surveying them to death? I wonder how much active learning is enough. Whe...

Wonderments 1-7

  Wonders I wonder if discrimination due to gender stereotypes plays out the same way in educational institutes as it does in the corporate world, given the prevalence of women in education. Welle, B. , & Heilman, M.  (2005).  Formal and informal discrimination against women at work: The role of gender stereotypes . (The Center for Public Leadership Working Papers). Harvard University Press. I wonder how the modified rubric I made before leaving SSOM is playing out. Is it moving the institution closer to milestones? Is it reducing grade inflation? I wonder what other measures of faculty performance we can use in addition to student satisfaction that is quick, easy, and economical. I wonder why some institutions can enact institutional change while most are not able to. I wonder what the grade distribution is at medical schools that don’t use simple pass/fail. I wonder how high school administrator’s teaching background (elective/required courses) effects their staff’s...