In the Pikes Peak Community College Surgical Technology Program, student knowledge and curriculum comprehension are measured in a few ways. The one that has become a point of interest within our department is the way we analyze students' computer-based quizzes taken in class at the end of each chapter.

In its simplest form, a community partnership is a group of people working toward the same goal. For educators, this goal is to have successful student outcomes.

Thirteen years ago, I made the decision to transition from working in the operating room to teaching full time with only a year of experience as an adjunct educator. Like most of my colleagues, I came straight out of the clinic with only a fraction of what I needed to succeed.