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Instructional Sciences and Assessment

The Office of Instructional Sciences and Assessment's goal is to support and advance faculty teaching and student learning. To achieve this goal, the OISA offers faculty training, consultation, development, and evaluation on a one-one basis or through workshops related to 10 instructional areas:

Our Priorities

1. Classroom technology emphasizing live, synchronous education at a distance, Blackboard courseware tools, and audience response systems
2. Classroom management such as syllabus construction, course coordinating, team teaching, and student issues
3. Instructional material development such as PowerPoint slides, handouts, writing measurable objectives and test questions that address different levels of learning, and classroom activities
4. Active learning for use in all classes focusing on team-based learning, effective use of cases, peer teaching, critical thinking and problem solving, student engagement in class discussions and questioning, and simulations,
5. Lecture delivery strategies emphasizing presentation mapping, teaching observations and feedback, and instructional design issues
6. Understanding learners such as motivation, levels of learning (Bloom’s taxonomy), personality, communication and leadership styles/preferences, learning styles, and generational issues.
7. Alignment of instructional objectives, delivery, and assessment
8. Formative and summative assessments of student learning using checklists, rating scales, and rubrics
9. Performance-based assessments of knowledge, skills and attitudes
10. Educational research emphasizing designing classroom teaching systemically and scientifically and documenting and publishing instructional outcomes in the education literature

Specific OISA Initiatives

1. PGY I Resident Teaching Certificate Program
2. PGY II Teaching Development Program
3. New Faculty Teaching Development Program
4. Teaching Observation and Feedback Service
5. Supporting Curricular Review, Mapping, Assessment, and Electronic Documentation
6. Co-Coordinating Education Grand Rounds (EGR) for the OUHSC campus (www.ouhsc.edu/egr)
7. Directing the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program for the OUHSC Graduate College (www.preparing-faculty.org)
8. Blackboard Training (www.ouhsc.edu/blackboard)

Contact Us

Melissa S. Medina, Ed.D Clinical Assistant Professor Assistant Dean of Assessment and Evaluation Director of Preparing Future Faculty (OUHSC Graduate College) The University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy 1110 N. Stonewall Ave. Dean’s Office, First floor P.O. Box 26901 Oklahoma City, OK 73126-0901 Phone: 405-271-6484 x. 47299 Fax: 405-271-3830 Email: Melissa-Medina@ouhsc.edu

Tamra S. Davis, Ph.D. Instructional Design Specialist The University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy - Tulsa Schusterman Center #1H25 4502 E. 41st St. Tulsa, OK 74135-2512 Phone: 918.660.3020 Fax: 918.660.3580 Email: Tamra-Davis@ouhsc.edu

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