title: Teacher stories of blame when assigning a failing grade.
abstract: Nurse educators are required to routinely evaluate students. While there is a plethora of information in the educational literature about how to write exams, develop rubrics, or evaluate clinical performance, there is a paucity of research related to teachers' experiences of evaluation. Using a Heideggerian hermeneutical approach, this study sought to answer: (1) what are the experiences of nurse educators evaluating nursing students? and (2) what do these evaluative experiences mean to the nurse educator? Thirty nurse educators from 19 undergraduate programs were interviewed for this study. Implications for nurse educators are discussed.
authors.forename: Susan G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Poorman
authors.forename: Melissa L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Mastorovich
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D005246:Feedback; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D009742:Nursing Theory; D014477:Underachievement; D014481:United States