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Using Learning Outcome Measures to assess Doctoral Nursing Education
Published on: June 21, 2010
A humanistic-educative approach to evaluation in nursing education
Dolly Goldenberg1, Pamela Dietrich
1School of Nursing, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5C1, Canada. dollyg@rogers.com
Abstract:
A continuing challenge for nurse educators is to create a learning environment in which students receive fair and timely evaluations. Traditional or behavioural evaluation methods have been criticized as being too limited. A humanistic-educative evaluation method is offered with its emancipation of faculty and students and emphasis on collaboration, caring, creativity, critical thinking and self-assessment. A teacher-student shared home visit for a Family Nursing clinical assignment is provided to illustrate this approach. The potential benefit of the method for developing self-directed and competent professional nurses is proposed.
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