title: A humanistic-educative approach to evaluation in nursing education.
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.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5C1, Canada. dollyg@rogers.com
authors.forename: Dolly
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Goldenberg
authors.forename: Pamela
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dietrich
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006808:Humanism