Evaluation of Lesson Plans of Faculty Members of Medical and Dental Schools of Babol University of Medical Sciences

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The lesson plan is written description of education process in which is shown what, when, where and with which method should be learned and how students will be assessed. The aim of this study was to evaluate the lesson plans of faculty members of medical and dental schools of Babol University of medical sciences, Babol, Iran.METHODS: In this cross sectional study, lesson plan of all faculty members of medical school (clinical and basic sciences) and dental school who participated in workshop of principles of writing lesson plan was assessed. In initial assessment of lesson plans, existing problems noted and explained to authors in individual meetings. Studied items included specifying the instructors name, lesson name, using educational devices and etc. Score for specified and non specified items was one and zero, respectively. Then groups were compared with each other.FINDINGS: In this study, 100% of faculty members of basic sciences, 91.3 % of faculty members of clinical sciences and 100% of dental school faculty members use the lecture as a teaching method. Power point and video projector are the most common educational aid devices which used by 75% of faculty members of basic sciences, 57.1 % of faculty members of clinical sciences and 100% of faculty members of dental school. Formative examinations (quiz, midterm test and etc) were used to evaluate students by 58.3 % of faculty members of basic sciences, 14.2 % of faculty members of clinical sciences and 0% of faculty members of dental school.CONCLUSION: The results of this study show that most faculty members do not use formative examinations to evaluate the students and they do not prepare a written lesson plan. More planning is necessary to resolve the problem in order to faculty members are required to have written lesson plan as routine work.

Keywords

• evaluation
• lesson plan
• faculty members