Dr. Mary L. Zanetti is the Senior Director for Institutional Research, Evaluation,
& Assessment (IREA) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS). She is
also the UMMS Institutional Research Officer and an Assistant Professor in the Department
of Quantitative Health Sciences. As Institutional Research Officer, Mary provides support
to the Office of the Dean/Provost, Office of the Chancellor, and external reporting
functionality to the University of Massachusetts President’s Office and beyond. 

Dr. Zanetti is responsible for an 8-member team serving the UMMS community. The Office of
IREA provides direction and support to faculty, senior academic leaders, and
administrators in the areas of student assessment, curriculum evaluation, medical
education and institutional research for the School of Medicine, Graduate School of
Nursing, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and other institutional offices. 

Dr. Zanetti annually teaches 3 medical education and research seminars: Developing
Pre/Post Assessments for Research and Grants; Effectively Assessing What You Teach; and
Introduction to Using Excel for Data Management. She also serves as a psychometrician on
a number of grants and special projects funded through federal, state and local
initiatives. 

Mary earned her doctorate in Research and Evaluation Methods Program from the University
of Massachusetts Amherst before joining the University of Massachusetts Medical School in
2003. Her current research interests include reliability and validity studies of
performance-based assessments, standard setting for high-stakes assessments, and the
application of outcome measures that inform institutional policies. 

Articles

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Global longitudinal pathway: has medical education curriculum influenced medical students' skills and attitudes toward culturally diverse populations? (with Michael A. Godkin, Joshua P. Twomey, and Michele P. Pugnaire), Teaching and learning in medicine (2011)
 

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Integration of basic clinical skills training in medical education: an interprofessional simulated teaching experience (with Janet Fraser Hale and Mitchell Cahan), Teaching and learning in medicine (2011)
 

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Using standardized patients to assess professionalism: a generalizability study (with Lisa Keller, Kathleen M. Mazor, Michele M. Carlin, Eric J. Alper, David S. Hatem, Wendy L. Gammon, and Michele P. Pugnaire), Teaching and learning in medicine (2010)
 

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Assessing professionalism in the context of an objective structured clinical examination: an in-depth study of the rating process (with Kathleen M. Mazor, Eric J. Alper, David S. Hatem, Susan V. Barrett, Vanessa Meterko, Wendy L. Gammon, and Michele P. Pugnaire), Medical education (2007)
 

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Tracking the longitudinal stability of medical students' perceptions using the AAMC graduation questionnaire and serial evaluation surveys (with Michele P. Pugnaire, Urip Purwono, and Michele M. Carlin), Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges (2004)
 

Presentations

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Piloting Standardized Immediate Student Evaluation of Lectures in Pre-Clinical Years (with Meghan E. Shea, Lorrie Gehlbach, and Melissa A. Fischer), Senior Scholars Program (2010)
 

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Correlation of Measures of Psychotherapy Competency in Psychiatry Residents (with Julia Matthews-Bellinger, Sheldon Benjamin, and Mohit Chauhan), American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training (2010)
 

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Advisor/Mentor Role in Guiding Future Primary Care Physicians (with Stacey J. Kadish, Gina M. Gentile, Laura S. Sefton, and Michele P. Pugnaire), Division of Research & Evaluation (2009)
 

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Independent Learning: Emerging Themes (with Stacey J. Kadish, Gina M. Gentile, Susan V. Barrett, Michele M. Carlin, and Michele P. Pugnaire), Division of Research & Evaluation (2009)
 

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Diversity Climate Survey Results: Changing Institutional Culture (with Marian V. Wilson, Michele M. Carlin, Susan V. Barrett, and Stacey J. Kadish), Division of Research & Evaluation (2008)
 

Reports

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Diversity among Equals: Educational Opportunity and the State of Affirmative Admissions in New England (with Stephen P. Coelen, Joseph B. Berger, Patricia H. Crosson, Suzanne M. Smith, Stephanie A. Eckman, Kathryn A. McDermott, Stephen G. Sireci, and Preston C. Green), Division of Research & Evaluation (2001)
 

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STEMTEC Evaluation Report For Year 4 (Fall 2000/Spring 2001) (with Stephen G. Sireci, Sharon Cadman Slater, and Joseph B. Berger), Division of Research & Evaluation (2001)