Promoting innovation in the objective structured teaching examination and feedback: clustering teachers to aid teaching evaluation

Problem: This study used the principles of feedback in a faculty development curriculum to enable clinical teachers to conduct objective structured teaching exercises for performance assessment. Intervention: the Flanders System of Interaction Analysis (FIA) was given to analysis of the data collected from a particular situation, to videotapes of simulated clinical teaching skills. Context: The Sparse K-Means clustering method, one-way ANOVA and post hoc tests were employed to cluster the most commonly used skills by teachers and compare the features of different clusters were then discussed. Outcome: The evaluation method employed in this study can be extended to more teaching methods and skills. Lessons Learned: that through teaching observation, clinical teaching skills and reflection teaching can be improved.