{"id":522,"date":"2014-11-13T20:20:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T20:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/osteopathic\/?page_id=522"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:07:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:07:37","slug":"assessment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/osteopathic\/administrative-offices\/assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Accreditation and Educational Effectiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-secondary\">\n  <div class=\"relative bg-black\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"adhere object-cover\" src=\"\/media\/westernu\/basic-slider\/slide-default-00.jpg\" alt=\"slide-default-00\">\n      <div class=\"adhere gradient-overlay\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"relative container pt-56 md:pt-112 pb-144 md:pb-192\">\n      <div class=\"md:flex md:justify-between px-12\">\n        <div class=\"sm:w-8\/12 md:w-6\/12 xl:w-5\/12 px-12\">\n                      <div class=\"mb-20\">\n              <div class=\"block font-sans font-bold text-14 text-white leading-130\">\n  <span class=\"inline-block\">\n    <a href=\"\/\" class=\"block hover:underline\">WesternU<\/a>\n  <\/span>\n      <span class=\"inline-block mx-6\">\/<\/span>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/osteopathic\" class=\"inline-block hover:underline\">College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific (COMP) and COMP-Northwest<\/a>\n          <span class=\"inline-block mx-6\">\/<\/span>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/osteopathic\/administrative-offices\/\" class=\"inline-block hover:underline\">Administrative Offices<\/a>\n    <span class=\"inline-block mx-6\">\/<\/span>\n    <span class=\"inline-block\"><\/span>\n  <\/div>            <\/div>\n                                        <h1 class=\"t-h1-sans  text-white\"><\/h1>\n        <\/div>\n              <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"tertiary-nav\">\n  <div class=\"container\">\n        <nav class=\"relative mx-24 py-10 px-20 rounded-b-5 md:rounded-b-8 bg-gray shadow-md mb-40\">\n      <ul class=\"grid lg:grid-cols-[1fr_auto_1fr_auto_1fr_auto_1fr] lg:gap-x-16 lg:justify-items-center lg:text-center\"> <!-- 4 columns layout, 1 column in mobile -->\n                            <li class=\"my-8\">\n            <a class=\"text-16 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-black hover:text-red hover:underline transition-default\" href=\"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/osteopathic\/administrative-offices\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Administrative Offices<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n                                              <div class=\"vertical-line hidden lg:block w-1 invisible bg-red mt-8\"><\/div>\n                                      <li class=\"my-8\">\n            <a class=\"text-16 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-black hover:text-red hover:underline transition-default\" href=\"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/osteopathic\/administrative-offices\/oaa\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Preclinical Education<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n                                              <div class=\"vertical-line hidden lg:block w-1 invisible bg-red mt-8\"><\/div>\n                                      <li class=\"my-8\">\n            <a class=\"text-16 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-black hover:text-red hover:underline transition-default\" href=\"https:\/\/comp-innovation.westernu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Academic Innovation<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n                                              <div class=\"vertical-line hidden lg:block w-1 invisible bg-red mt-8\"><\/div>\n                                      <li class=\"my-8\">\n            <a class=\"text-16 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-black hover:text-red hover:underline transition-default\" href=\"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/osteopathic\/administrative-offices\/assessment\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Accreditation and Educational Effectiveness<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n                                      <li class=\"my-8\">\n            <a class=\"text-16 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-black hover:text-red hover:underline transition-default\" href=\"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/osteopathic\/administrative-offices\/ccd\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Career and Professional Development<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n                                              <div class=\"vertical-line hidden lg:block w-1 invisible bg-red\"><\/div>\n                                      <li class=\"my-8\">\n            <a class=\"text-16 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-black hover:text-red hover:underline transition-default\" href=\"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/osteopathic\/administrative-offices\/graduate-medical-education\/cme\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Continuing Medical Education<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n                                              <div class=\"vertical-line hidden lg:block w-1 invisible bg-red mb-8\"><\/div>\n                                      <li class=\"my-8\">\n            <a class=\"text-16 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-black hover:text-red hover:underline transition-default\" href=\"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/osteopathic\/administrative-offices\/clinical-education\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Clinical Education<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n                                              <div class=\"vertical-line hidden lg:block w-1 invisible bg-red mb-8\"><\/div>\n                                      <li class=\"my-8\">\n            <a class=\"text-16 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-black hover:text-red hover:underline transition-default\" href=\"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/osteopathic\/administrative-offices\/graduate-medical-education\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Graduate Medical Education<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n                                      <li class=\"my-8\">\n            <a class=\"text-16 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-black hover:text-red hover:underline transition-default\" href=\"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/osteopathic\/administrative-offices\/student-affairs\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Student Affairs<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n                                              <div class=\"vertical-line hidden lg:block w-1 invisible bg-red mb-8\"><\/div>\n                        <\/ul>\n    <\/nav>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"relative my-48 md:my-72\">\n  <div class=\"container\">\n    <div class=\"lg:flex px-12 lg:justify-center\">\n      \n      \n                  \n      \n      \n      <div class=\"w-full px-24 wysiwyg-content\">\n        <p>The Office of Accreditation and Educational Effectiveness of the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific (California &amp; Oregon) is responsible for programmatic quality oversight and learning outcomes tracking within the college.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The office meets its goals through a variety of strategies including:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Constructing evaluation tools and managing the system by which students evaluate all their courses and blocks in the preclinical curriculum;<\/li>\n<li>Collecting, analyzing and managing student evaluation data, and subsequently distributing these results to the block and clerkship directors, Curriculum Committee and Faculty Assembly;<\/li>\n<li>Developing faculty evaluations for the preclinical curriculum, managing the system by which students evaluate their faculty, and distributing the reports to each faculty member and their department chair;<\/li>\n<li>Working with course and block directors in the preclinical curriculum to create structured reports showing summary assessment data, as well as programmatic &amp; institutional learning outcomes (PLO\/ILOs), following each course or block, and presenting these reports to the Curriculum Committee;<\/li>\n<li>Working with core clinical rotation directors (COMP department chairs) in the clinical curriculum to create structured reports showing summary assessment data (COMAT), as well as programmatic &amp; institutional learning outcomes (PLO\/ILOs), following each year of clinical rotations, and presenting these reports to the Curriculum Committee;<\/li>\n<li>Developing faculty evaluations for the clinical curriculum, managing the system by which students evaluate their clinical faculty, and distributing the reports to each faculty member and the appropriate department chair;<\/li>\n<li>Working directly with curriculum directors and others in the COMP faculty for the creation and evaluation of assessment tools to monitor student performance and progress toward achieving COMP and WesternU PLO\/ILOs throughout the curriculum;<\/li>\n<li>Supervising programmatic review of the COMP osteopathic medical curriculum on a regular basis;<\/li>\n<li>Collaborating with other curriculum offices at COMP to disseminate aggregate assessment data through student dashboards;<\/li>\n<li>Following trends of aggregate and disaggregated data regarding national board examination performance;<\/li>\n<li>Actively monitoring professional and institutional accreditation requirements related to assessment and evaluation; and<\/li>\n<li>Assisting with medical education research and scholarship through consultation with COMP faculty on educational research design and implementation, survey construction, statistical analysis, and manuscript development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"faculty-card my-48 md:my-72\">\n  <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"md:flex md:justify-between md:items-end mb-20\">\n      <h2 class=\"t-h2-sans  text-red md:mr-40\">Faculty &amp; Staff<\/h2>\n    <\/div>\n            <div class=\"md:flex md:flex-wrap px-12\">\n                                                      \n                                                        \n      <div class=\"px-12 mt-24 w-full md:w-1\/2\">\n        <div class=\"sm:flex w-full py-32 border-b-1 border-gray\">\n                                            <a href=\"\/bios\/?bio=pdiniz\" class=\"card block w-256 sm:w-1\/3 pl-12 md:pl-0 pr-12 md:pr-18 mr-auto md:mr-0\">\n                <div class=\"rounded-5 md:rounded-8 overflow-hidden\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"card__image w-full h-256 sm:h-192 md:h-144 lg:h-192 xl:h-256 object-cover\" alt=\"Portrait of Pedro Paulo V. P. Diniz, VM\" src=\"\/media\/westernu\/images\/staff\/pdiniz.jpg\" \/>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/a>\n                                <div class=\"w-full h-full md:w-2\/3 pl-12 md:pl-18 mt-18 sm:mt-0\">\n            <p class=\"t-h2-serif leading-120\">\n                            <a href=\"\/bios\/?bio=pdiniz\" class=\"text-red-light hover:text-red\">Pedro Paulo V. P. Diniz, VM<\/a>\n                          <\/p>\n            <div class=\"mt-16 t-p2\">\n                            <p class=\"font-bold\">COMP<\/p>\n                                          <p class=\"font-bold\">Assistant Dean of Assessment and Outcomes. Professor of Biostatistics<\/p>\n                                                                      <p>\n                <a href=\"mailto:pdiniz@westernu.edu\" class=\"hover:underline\">pdiniz@westernu.edu <\/a>\n              <\/p>\n                                        <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n                                                      \n                                                        \n      <div class=\"px-12 mt-24 w-full md:w-1\/2\">\n        <div class=\"sm:flex w-full py-32 border-b-1 border-gray\">\n                                            <div class=\"card block w-256 sm:w-1\/3 pl-12 md:pl-0 pr-12 md:pr-18 mr-auto md:mr-0\">\n                <div class=\"rounded-5 md:rounded-8 overflow-hidden\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"card__image w-full h-256 sm:h-192 md:h-144 lg:h-192 xl:h-256 object-cover\" alt=\"Portrait of Johannie (Jo) Spaan, PhD\" src=\"\/media\/westernu\/images\/staff\/jspaan.jpg\" \/>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                                <div class=\"w-full h-full md:w-2\/3 pl-12 md:pl-18 mt-18 sm:mt-0\">\n            <p class=\"t-h2-serif leading-120\">\n                            <span class=\"text-red-light hover:text-red\">Johannie (Jo) Spaan, PhD<\/span>\n                          <\/p>\n            <div class=\"mt-16 t-p2\">\n                            <p class=\"font-bold\">COMP-NW<\/p>\n                                          <p class=\"font-bold\">Director of Office of Assessment, Outcomes, &amp; Accreditation<\/p>\n                                                                      <p>\n                <a href=\"mailto:jspaan@westernu.edu\" class=\"hover:underline\">jspaan@westernu.edu <\/a>\n              <\/p>\n                                        <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n                                                      \n                                                        \n      <div class=\"px-12 mt-24 w-full md:w-1\/2\">\n        <div class=\"sm:flex w-full py-32 border-b-1 border-gray\">\n                                            <div class=\"card block w-256 sm:w-1\/3 pl-12 md:pl-0 pr-12 md:pr-18 mr-auto md:mr-0\">\n                <div class=\"rounded-5 md:rounded-8 overflow-hidden\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"card__image w-full h-256 sm:h-192 md:h-144 lg:h-192 xl:h-256 object-cover\" alt=\"Portrait of Niela Darmani, MS\" src=\"\/media\/westernu\/images\/staff\/darmanin.jpg\" \/>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                                <div class=\"w-full h-full md:w-2\/3 pl-12 md:pl-18 mt-18 sm:mt-0\">\n            <p class=\"t-h2-serif leading-120\">\n                            <span class=\"text-red-light hover:text-red\">Niela Darmani, MS<\/span>\n                          <\/p>\n            <div class=\"mt-16 t-p2\">\n                            <p class=\"font-bold\">COMP<\/p>\n                                          <p class=\"font-bold\">Manager, Curricular Affairs<\/p>\n                                                                      <p>\n                <a href=\"mailto:darmanin@westernu.edu\" class=\"hover:underline\">darmanin@westernu.edu <\/a>\n              <\/p>\n                                        <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"faculty-card my-48 md:my-72\">\n  <div class=\"container\">\n          <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"parent":6816,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-522","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/osteopathic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/osteopathic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/osteopathic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/osteopathic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/osteopathic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/osteopathic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16160,"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/osteopathic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/522\/revisions\/16160"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/osteopathic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/osteopathic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}