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Issues and methods in curriculum evaluation.

P L Grover, M M Ravitch

    Journal of Medical Education
    |December 11, 1975
    PubMed
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    Medical school curriculum research should use representative designs, not strict experimental ones. This approach enhances population validity, ecological validity, and referent generality for better educational insights.

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    Area of Science:

    • Medical Education Research
    • Curriculum Development
    • Health Professions Education

    Background:

    • Traditional experimental designs may not be suitable for evaluating medical school curricula.
    • Compromising curriculum aspects to fit experimental criteria can limit research applicability.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To advocate for representative curricular research designs in medical education.
    • To propose key elements of representative designs: population validity, ecological validity, and referent generality.

    Main Methods:

    • The study suggests a shift from systematic experimental designs to representative designs.
    • Illustrates representative design principles using a primary care curriculum developed within a health maintenance organization.

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    Main Results:

    • Representative designs allow for research that better reflects real-world educational settings.
    • The proposed approach avoids compromising curriculum content for methodological constraints.

    Conclusions:

    • Representative research designs are a more appropriate framework for studying medical school curricula.
    • Implementing population validity, ecological validity, and referent generality is crucial for robust curricular research.