Peer Evaluation Process

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The purpose of the evaluation is:

1. Provide feedback to students regarding professionalism. Professionalism can be challenging to evaluate and issues may not come to the attention of faculty or course directors. Peers working in a group setting over the course of an academic year serve as a valuable resource in the assessment of professionalism.
2. Students will learn how to provide constructive feedback regarding professionalism during the evaluation process. Before participating in the first round of peer assessment, students will be introduced to the process of giving high-quality feedback in a short mandatory session.

Process:

• Three times during the year, students will assess the members of their assigned groups and offer a self-assessment that measures work habits and interpersonal attributes using the six item instrument shown below.  They will also provide narrative comments describing their peers' strengths and weaknesses. 
• The identity of the assessor will be anonymous to their peers but will be available to advisory faculty.
• Advisory faculty will evaluate the ratings and comments provided and will meet with an assessor if the assessment of a peer is remarkably different from other assessors for that peer or if inappropriate comments are made.  The purpose of this evaluation is to assist the assessor in providing appropriate feedback.
• Once this process is complete the evaluation will be released to the individual for whom the evaluation was conducted.
• Students will review a summary or their evaluations and complete a self- reflection based on the summary.
• The peer evaluation summary may also be reviewed at meetings conducted by the office of Student Affairs for Evaluation of Professionalism for First and Second Year students.
• The Office of Academic Affairs and the student’s faculty advisor will have access to the peer evaluation summary and will address any issues during a one on one meeting with the student. 

All students are expected to complete evaluations for all group members. Students who fail to complete evaluations will be referred to the Academic and Professionalism Standards Committee. 

Instrument modified from:  Nofziger, A. C., Naumberg, E. H., Davis, B. J., Mooney, & C. J., Epstein, R. M. (2010). Impact of Peer assessment on the professional development of medical students: A Qualitative study. Academic Medicine, 85(1), 140 - 147.