title: Issues and methods in curriculum evaluation.
abstract: Studies of medical school curricula need not meet the criteria of systematic experimental designs. Instead of compromising aspects of the curriculum to meet such requirements as random sampling, the authors suggest the development of representative curricular research. Such designs require the development of population validity, ecological validity, and referent generality. Examples of these aspects of representative design are derived from the development of a health-maintenance-organization-based primary care curriculum.
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations; D008722:Methods; D012107:Research Design; D012577:Schools, Medical; D014481:United States