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Leveraging Data Visualization and Data Storytelling in Programmatic Assessment and Program Evaluation

Research in cognitive sciences indicates that humans have been telling stories for thousands of years and human brains are wired to process and respond to them. However, limited research focused on the interplay between data storytelling and medical education. Both Programmatic Assessment and Program Evaluation in medical education require collecting a large volume of data and making informed decisions using such data. Currently, the ways of presenting and communicating student assessment data to stakeholders and program evaluation data to decision-makers are still lacking. In the past four years, our office explored using data visualization and storytelling tools and techniques in data analysis and presentation to support high-stake student progress decision-making and identifying areas of improvement as a part of the Program Evaluation Model.

We will spend the first 5 minutes presenting the theories and best practices in data visualization and data storytelling. We then will spend the next 15 minutes displaying a few visualization examples and highlighting the lessons we learned from our journey. We will divide participants of different levels of expertise into small groups of 4-6 to engage in two visualization and storytelling design activities that will last 60 minutes. We then will host a 10-minute Q&A session.

Senior executives, department heads, scientists, data practitioners, staff who are involved in Medical School assessment and evaluation

• data visualization and storytelling opportunities in student assessment and program evaluation • Identify Learn tools and techniques present quantitative information effectively • Feel confident in engaging and persuading your audience with storytelling

Few. S, (2012) Show me the numbers: Design tables and graphs to enlighten Kosara. R, Mackinlay. J, Storytelling: The Next Step for Visualization https://kosara.net/papers/2013/Kosara-Computer-2013.pdf M. Austin, Useful Fictions: Evolution, Anxiety, and the Origins of Literature. University of Nebraska Press, 2011

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data storytelling

programmatic assessment

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