Scholarly Program Evaluation: How to Increase the Chance of Publishing Your Education Work

Various resources exist for conducting program evaluations, but these resources do not specify features of a scholarly program evaluation. In this commentary, the authors use Glassick's criteria for scholarship (clear goals, adequate preparation, appropriate methods, significant results, effective presentation, and reflective critique) to define what counts as a scholarly program evaluation. Then they use a hypothetical scenario common in medical education to describe how an educator could design and share program evaluation findings for a Research in Medical Education Research Report submission, an Innovation Report submission to Academic Medicine, and a MedEdPortal submission.