Macdougall, Colin. (2010) Evaluation - the educational context. Archives of Disease in Childhood. Education and Practice Edition, Vol.95 (No.1). pp. 28-32. ISSN 1743-0585

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Abstract

Evaluation comes in many shapes and sizes. It can be as simple and as grounded in day to day work as a clinical teacher refl ecting on a lost teaching opportunity and wondering how to do it better next time or as complex, top down and politically charged as a major government led evaluation of use of teaching funds with the subtext of re-allocating them. Despite these multiple spectra of scale, perceived ownership, fi nancial and political implications, the underlying principles of evaluation are remarkably consistent. To evaluate well, it needs to be clear who is evaluating what and why. From this will come notions of how it needs to be done to ensure the evaluation is meaningful and useful. This paper seeks to illustrate what evaluation is, why it matters, where to start if you want to do it and how to deal with evaluation that is external and imposed.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Evaluation, Medicine -- Study and teaching, Medical students -- Rating of
Journal or Publication Title:	Archives of Disease in Childhood. Education and Practice Edition
Publisher:	BMJ Group
ISSN:	1743-0585
Date:	February 2010
Volume:	Vol.95
Number:	No.1
Page Range:	pp. 28-32
Identification Number:	10.1136/adc.2008.142240
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access
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URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/3282

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