A Pleasure to Work With—An Analysis of Written Comments on Student Evaluations
Ambulatory PediatricsPublished 1 May 2001
Patricia S. Lye, Kathy Biernat, Dawn Bragg, Deborah Simpson
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Evaluation comments were infrequently related to basic clinical skills and were not often specific enough to lead to effective change in a student's performance, which is needed to make final evaluation comments more useful for students.
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Evaluation comments were infrequently related to basic clinical skills and were not often specific enough to lead to effective change in a student's performance. Faculty development is needed to make final evaluation comments more useful for students.
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