Evaluating clinical teachers for promotion

A framework for evaluating health promotion programs.

Evaluation of health promotion interventions is essential in order to collect evidence about the efficacy of a program, identify ways to improve practice, justify the use of resources, and identify unexpected outcomes. This paper clarifies the role of evaluation as a crucial component of health promotion interventions. Moreover, it summarises the key elements of the most widely used planning/ev...

A Resource for Clinical Teachers

C linical teachers have the challenging and profound responsibility to convey the art and science of current medical practice. Fortunately, over the past four decades, a variety of programs have been developed to help them play this difficult role. Starting with the initial work of Miller and colleagues in the mid 1950s, 1 faculty-development programs to enhance instructional skills have been c...

Did they get what they came for? Evaluating teachers’ learning

Evaluating authoring tools for teachers as instructional designers

The REDEEM authoring environment was developed to allow educators with no programming knowledge to design learning environments (simple Intelligent Tutoring Systems) for their students in a time-effective manner. The success of this approach depends on two key factors. Firstly, on the extent to which the authoring tool is usable by its intended author population (classroom teachers, university ...

Promising community-level indicators for evaluating cardiovascular health-promotion programs.

Rigorous evaluation of community-based programs can be costly, particularly when a representative sample of all members of the community are surveyed in order to assess the impact of a program on individual health behavior. Community-level indicators (CLIs), which are based on observations of aspects of the community other than those associated with individuals, may serve to supplement individu...