The full impact of changes to curricula is not known for some time after graduation, requiring a long-term approach to curriculum evaluation [ 2].
This last point is a major challenge that must be undertaken both in a long-term perspective, through curriculum change, as well as in the short term by encouraging innovations in existing systems.
For the 2012 cohort, we also measured learning outcomes by analyzing performance on the cumulative final exam in the lecture portion of the course, a summative assessment that measured long-term retention of curriculum-related concepts approximately 12 wk after the service-learning experience.
Since a curriculum's goals and objectives will likely evolve over time as learning needs change, these rounds of outcomes assessment, needs assessment, and curriculum revision become important to the long-term success of a curriculum [ 2].
Through several sets of workshops in the district, CPET coaches provided space for long-term planning, unit planning, curriculum design, and the design of performance tasks aligned with their educational objectives.
Acquisition and retention of quantitative communication skills in an undergraduate biology curriculum: long-term retention results.
Evaluation focused on short-term outcomes and we cannot draw conclusions about long-term impact of the curriculum.
These next stages will provide our university and the broader medical community with a comparison of long-term outcomes between two curriculum cohorts.
In the future, it may be possible to implement mechanisms that seek to assess whether trainees continue to utilize these medication management skills into their residencies as well as to have longer periods of follow-up with patients to examine retention of new medication information/behavioral changes as long-term outcomes of the curriculum.
With answering the above research questions, our research aims to present long-term efforts of mobile science curriculum implementation, with focusing on introducing the design features of the curriculum, the analysis of students' participation performance in the mobile activities, and finally exposing the factors affecting students' behavior in mobile learning context.
