Continuing the Discussion on Scholarship in Pharmacy Education

Pearson, Marion L.; Albon, Simon P.

doi:10.5688/ajpe77238

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“…Inform your strategic planning practices and processes with the scholarly literature. Taking an evidenced-based approach is something commonly espoused in educational development (Professional and Organizational Development Network, 2016) and other areas such as scholarly teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning (Pearson & Albon, 2013). Yet, in our case, we did not uphold this principle until we were well into the strategic planning process.…”

Section: Take a Scholarly Approachmentioning

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Strategic Planning in an Educational Development Centre: Motivation, Management, and Messiness

Albon

Iqbal

Pearson

2016

CELT

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Strategic planning in universities is frequently positioned as vital for clarifying future directions, providing a coherent basis for decision-making, establishing priorities, and improving organizational performance. Models for successful strategic planning abound and often present the process as linear and straightforward. In this essay, we examine our own experiences of strategic planning for a new educational development centre situated in a Faculty of a research intensive university. Drawing from the literature, we provide a brief history of strategic planning in university contexts and consider criticisms and benefits. We investigate complicated issues related to our own process and, throughout, we argue that in spite of established formulas for creating a strategic plan, the process is non-linear and messy. We end this paper with recommendations for educational developer colleagues.

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Section: Take a Scholarly Approachmentioning

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Strategic Planning in an Educational Development Centre: Motivation, Management, and Messiness

Albon

Iqbal

Pearson

2016

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“…One potential drawback is that engaging students in scholarly activities requires sufficient faculty time, adequate resources, and appropriate faculty expertise [ 11 ]. Pearson and Albon indicate institutional support is a major factor in success of an educational research program [ 24 ]. Our culture supports and fosters scholarship through provision of research funds and reasonable research time allocation in addition to consideration of time invested in student research during the promotion and tenure process.…”

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A descriptive investigation of the impact of student research projects arising from elective research courses

Harirforoosh

Stewart

2016

BMC Res Notes

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BackgroundPharmacy academicians have noted the need to develop research skills in student pharmacists. At the Gatton College of Pharmacy, significant focus has been placed on the development of research skills through offering elective research courses. In order to evaluate the impact of participation in the research elective(s), we analyzed college records and surveyed faculty members with regard to the number of poster/podium presentations, published peer-reviewed manuscripts, and funded projects.ResultsStudent enrollment in the research elective sequence has increased over time and has resulted in 81 poster presentations, 14 podium presentations, and 15 peer-reviewed publications.ConclusionsImplementation of a research elective sequence and fostering of a research culture amongst the faculty and students has resulted in increased student engagement in research and related scholarly activities.

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“…In a way, decision-making within public schools goes beyond management. (Pearson & Albon, 2013;Walker et al, 2013). Because of this, the formulation of a strategic plan is critical to be able to focus on the delivery of excellent educational performance as in the case of a state college, which was created through Republic Act No.…”

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School Performance and the Proposed Strategic Plan: The Case of a Laboratory School

Digo

2021

JISR-MSSE

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This study determined the laboratory school’s performance and developed a three-year strategic plan to enhance its organizational performance. The researcher used a descriptive survey design, and the survey results were analyzed using frequency count and mean. The participants consisted of the school management, alumni, faculty, nonteaching staff, and students. Purposive sampling was used to select 101 participants within a school year for the study. The analysis and synthesis of data showed that the areas that needed attention were reducing the number of students per class, formulating faculty development programs, conducting in-service training, and hiring competent teachers. Further, developing the laboratory school’s purpose, values statement, objectives, key improvement strategies conducting operational research, publication of research studies, funding for faculty research, providing incentives for researchers, and preparing the vision-mission for the laboratory school are recommended in this study. These findings are addressed in the strategic plan developed for review and approval of the management committee to achieve organizational effectiveness and raise the performance of the laboratory school. Finally, this study may ensure the continued operation of the laboratory schools in state universities and colleges.

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Continuing the Discussion on Scholarship in Pharmacy Education

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

Strategic Planning in an Educational Development Centre: Motivation, Management, and Messiness

Strategic Planning in an Educational Development Centre: Motivation, Management, and Messiness

A descriptive investigation of the impact of student research projects arising from elective research courses

School Performance and the Proposed Strategic Plan: The Case of a Laboratory School

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