Evaluation and Assessment

To serve the colleges and schools of the Health Science Center (HSC) and provide the best quality education for our students, the Office of Interprofessional Practice, Education, & Research (IPER) engages in a continuous improvement process for our IPE programming using the Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) Model (Langley et al, 2009). In order to study our overall program as well as our individual interprofessional activities, we practice transparent program evaluation and student assessment, which is designed in collaboration with the HSC IPE Leadership Team and other college/school representatives. Our assessment and evaluation practices complement unit-based evaluation and assessment related to IPE. The data we gather is used to improve our programming and advance research and scholarship related to IPE and collaborative practice.

IPER follows both the Program Evaluation Standards developed by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation and the American Evaluation Association (AEA) Guiding Principles for Evaluators, which includes Systemic Inquiry, Competence, Integrity/Honesty, Respect for People, and Responsibilities for General and Public Welfare.

Aligning with these standards and principles, IPER’s most recent Strategic Plan was developed and adopted by Texas A&M Health colleges/schools in 2022 with the guidance of the IPER Office and a consulting team. The plan is designed to advance Texas A&M Health's Vision 360, Texas A&M University’s Decade of Excellence, and emerging strategies from Texas A&M 2040.  Together, these priorities position IPER to lead and continue driving innovation in interprofessional education, research, and collaborative practice into the future.