Evirx Products are developed using technology to interpret evidence for decision making that improves teaching and learning of those who supervise and assess others. See our video analysis tool and newer evidence interpretation technologies.

We are showcasing the Video Analysis Tool (VAT) applications in several areas where assessment and accountability of human performance are critical. Click on the product application areas below to learn more about the utility of VAT.

Video Analysis Tool

Education

We've developed a web-based tool that supports remote supervision and high quality feedback for teachers, leaders, and academic coaches in field placements. Remember capturing teaching and learning on video and watching the playback? Now we've made it easier and more powerful!

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Veterinary Medicine

Discover how VAT is a tool for faculty, students, and veterinarians. Faculty can use it as a way to assess student knowledge and skills. Students use it to analyze video of their own and others' practices. Veternarians can capture from the field and provide expertise to animal owners.

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Training and Research in Mental Health

The Video Analysis Tool (VAT) is a powerful tool to improve fidelity of intervention implementation. You can boost the consistency and credibility of supervisors and others conducting assessments of practices in the field.

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Veterinary Medicine

Examples of use in veterinary medicine

Learning to perform equine lameness exams: A video can be made available on the VAT server that demonstrates a lameness exam. Each student could then code this video, pointing out the significant events of the exam. For example they could note, "Horse has a right rear lameness indicated by the head bobbing down when the right rear contacts the ground." This coded video could be used in two ways. One, the student could compare their coding to the same video clip that is provided on the server that the clinician coded. The student would be able to see if there were any significant events in the exam that they did not correctly perceive. Or two, the professor could use the student coded video as an exam to determine how astute the student was at detecting and defining the abnormalities in the equines gait.

A video could be made of students performing elements of a lameness exam, such as nerve blocks, and this video could be provided to the professor for their evaluations. The professor could then provide feedback on the students method and technique.

Behavior assessments: A video can be provided a video demonstrating a certain animal behavior, either wild or domestic, and the student could then assess the behavior. The student could code the initiating factor of the incident, note the body language of the animal and the meaning of the posturing, as well as indicate the root of the behavior. Again this coded tape could be used as a learning opportunity for the student or a testing media for the professor.

Client/patient relationship assesssment: The student can be video tapped while they enter act with a client. This video can then be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the student's communication to the client. Their language and body language can be assessed as while as the response of the client to the student. This information can then be used to illustrate what the student is doing right and wrong in order to make them a more effective communicator.

Surgery: A video can be provided on the server that students can code indicating what the surgeon did correctly and what, if anything was done poorly. This can then be compared to a version of the video that has already been coded by a professor, to be sure that they correctly identified all the important aspects of the clip.

The students can create a video of a surgery technique that they performed and upload the video to the VAT server. This video can be made available to the professor for review and critiquing or used as a testing format.

The Video Analysis Tool (VAT) is an online tool that helps users through the evidence-informed decision-making process while improving performance or practice and allowing for individual and collaborative feedback.

The system allows teachers/clinicians, support professionals and students to engage in the use of video evidence for continuous improvement, support and monitoring of performance and techniques. By providing a means to conduct inquiries, locate key information, mark-up video representations of practices, and otherwise manipulate evidence and communication findings and recommendations for improvement of teaching practices and skills of veterinary students.

Instructional and learning events can be recorded via video cameras and stored for future review and analysis. This vehicle provides many opportunities for veterinary students and countless applications in numerous fields.

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