Critical Synthesis Package: Peer Assessment of Medical Lecturing Instrument (PAMLI)

Abstract

Abstract This Critical Synthesis Package contains: (1) a Critical Analysis of the psychometric properties and application to health sciences education for the Peer Assessment of Medical Lecturing Instrument (PAMLI); and (2) a copy of the PAMLI instrument, Facilitator's Guide, and Instructor's Manual developed by Lori Newman, MEd. The PAMLI is a peer assessment instrument that was developed to meet the increasing demand for evaluation of clinician-educators' teaching abilities in medical education settings. Results from the PAMLI provide medical educators with peer-generated ratings on a 5-point scale (1 = excellent demonstration, 5 = does not demonstrate) across 11 criteria for effective lecturing, plus an overall lecture quality rating. The PAMLI can be used in a variety of medical education settings, and results are suitable for formative evaluation or as part of a multisource summative evaluation. Provided peer-raters have the prescribed training, and the PAMLI appears to have adequate psychometric properties for its intended use. The face validity and initial psychometric properties of the PAMLI suggest that its use with non-medical health sciences educators holds promise; however, more research is needed to test whether its use with these types of educators is warranted with or without modification. The PAMLI holds promise as an outcome or predictor variable in future health sciences educational research, but being a newly developed instrument, the PAMLI could benefit from further study on its psychometric properties.

Keywords

• Teaching
• Lectures
• DREAM
• Directory and Repository of Educational Assessment Measures
• Peer Assessment
• PAMLI