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As part of the intership program that I coordinate, the school would like us to give criteria based feedback. I am thinking it is something like,"Jennifer wrote the proposal well because it was clear, concise and the recommendations were actionable."

If you could point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it as the school does not have any solid examples.

Thanks,

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Usually this means that it's linked to the goals you set (in advance) for learning in the internship.

Do they want feedback to them, in terms of a report to the school for credit evaluation?
Or do they want feedback to the student given that way?

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They want me to give the feedback to the student in this manner and then document it and then submit it to the school for peer review.

One of the goals I set is, "Provide a written response to drug information questions that concisely summarize the available medical literature."

Thanks,

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[quote="rgedey1"]One of the goals I set is, "Provide a written response to drug information questions that concisely summarize the available medical literature."[/quote]

This is a good start, and I think we can devise metrics around this.

How do you measure concise? You could use the Clear Writing Index cited in the Write More Effectively podcasts ([url=http://www.manager-tools.com/2007/04/write-more-effectively-part-1-of-2/... 1[/url] and [url=http://www.manager-tools.com/2007/04/write-more-effectively-part-2-of-2/... 2[/url]). You could also aim for zero grammatical errors.

How do you measure the available literature from which this summary is crafted? Can you use something like the number of articles cited?

These are just a couple ideas that might help you think of how to measure goals.

BJ

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[quote="wmarsha1"][quote="rgedey1"]One of the goals I set is, "Provide a written response to drug information questions that concisely summarize the available medical literature."[/quote]

This is a good start, and I think we can devise metrics around this.

How do you measure concise? You could use the Clear Writing Index cited in the Write More Effectively podcasts ([url=http://www.manager-tools.com/2007/04/write-more-effectively-part-1-of-2/... 1[/url] and [url=http://www.manager-tools.com/2007/04/write-more-effectively-part-2-of-2/... 2[/url]). You could also aim for zero grammatical errors.

How do you measure the available literature from which this summary is crafted? Can you use something like the number of articles cited?

These are just a couple ideas that might help you think of how to measure goals.

BJ[/quote]

My definition of concise is no more than 2 pages single space 10 point font in our company's standard drug information format. I would have to do a literature search as well to determine if the student captured what I thought were the relevant articles. Most questions can be answered with five or less articles.

For what I would consider a "good" conclusion is that it does not introduce new ideas, but summarizes the articles results and generalizes the importance.

I think this is a good start. Thanks everyone for your help.