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Educational research methods for researching innovations in teaching, learning and assessment: The nursing lecturer as researcher

Educational research methods for researching innovations in teaching, learning and assessment: The nursing lecturer as researcher

Marks-Maran, Diane (2015) Educational research methods for researching innovations in teaching, learning and assessment: The nursing lecturer as researcher. Nurse Education in Practice, 15 (6). pp. 472-479. ISSN 1471-5953 (doi:10.1016/j.nepr.2015.01.001)

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Abstract

The author, who has had previous experience as a nurse researcher, has been engaged in helping nurse lecturers to undertake evaluation research studies into innovations in their teaching, learning and assessment methods. In order to undertake this work successfully, it was important to move from thinking like a nurse researcher to thinking like an educational researcher and developing the role of the nursing lecturer as researcher of their teaching.

This article explores the difference between evaluation and evaluation research and argues for the need to use educational research methods when undertaking evaluation research into innovations in teaching, learning and assessment. A new model for educational evaluation research is presented together with two case examples of the model in use. The model has been tested on over 30 research studies into innovations in teaching, learning and assessment over the past 8 years.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: teaching methods, sssessment, evaluation research, educational action research
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
R Medicine > RT Nursing
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group: Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences
Last Modified: 14 Oct 2016 09:31
URI: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/13154

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