AMEE Education Guide no. 29: Evaluating educational programmes

Abstract

Evaluation has become an applied science in its own right in the last 40 years. This guide reviews the history of programme evaluation through its initial concern with methodology, giving way to concern with the context of evaluation practice and into the challenge of fitting evaluation results into highly politicized and decentralized systems. It provides a framework for potential evaluators considering undertaking evaluation. The role of the evaluator; the ethics of evaluation; choosing the questions to be asked; evaluation design, including the dimensions of evaluation and the range of evaluation approaches available to guide evaluators; interpreting and disseminating the findings; and influencing decision making are covered.

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John Goldie

JOHN GOLDIE, MB ChB MMEd FRCGP DRCOG Dip Med Ed ILTM, is Senior Clinical Tutor in the Department of General Practice, University of Glasgow. For the last eight years he has been lead researcher in the evaluation of ethics learning in Glasgow University's new medical curriculum.