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Macdougall, Colin F. (2010) Evaluation - the educational context. Archives of Disease in Childhood. Education and Practice Edition, Vol.95 (No.1). pp. 28-32. doi:10.1136/adc.2008.142240 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 | ||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > 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 | ||||
Official Date: | February 2010 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.95 | ||||
Number: | No.1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 28-32 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1136/adc.2008.142240 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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