Background. The assessment of clinical competence has returned to centre stage of nurse
education. However, there is little evidence to support the use of clinical competence and a …

This article reviews studies examining the effect of professional education on ethical
development. Most studies limit assessment to the measurement of moral judgement …

Background. Self‐assessment assists nurses to maintain and improve their practice by
identifying their strengths and areas that may need to be further developed. Professional …

Recent reforms of nursing education have led to calls for assessment of clinical performance
to contribute to academic qualifications that incorporate professional awards. Questions then …

This paper focuses on some issues in the assessment of clinical practice of particular
interest to the author. The assessment of students of nursing in clinical practice is …

The purpose of this paper is to offer accounting educators additional perspectives for ethics
education by considering teaching approaches from medicine and law. It takes the form of …

Context Medicine is practised in complex systems. Physicians engage in clinical and
operational problems that are dynamic and lack full transparency. As a consequence, the …

AIM The purpose was to synthesize the published evidence to present the state of the
science in clinical evaluation research in nursing education. BACKGROUND Clinical …

Rubrics have historically been used in secondary and higher education to evaluate specific
assignments or tasks. There is little mention of rubrics in the nursing literature, particularly in …

This article explores the challenges in evaluating student performance in preceptorships
based on data collected during academic years 1999-2002, which revealed an unusually …