A Further Five Years' Experience in Evaluating Learning by Two Dimensional Criteria (1989-94) / 医学教育

A new method of evaluating learning, combining the 2 categories of knowledge/skills and attitude, has been introduced into the course on preventive medicine and community health. The goal was to improve student attitudes towards learning. In this article, our five years' experience from 1989 to 1993 is reported and follows a previous similar study from 1986 to 1988. This time, the records of 3 of 490 students were judged to be inadequate for promotion to the next grade. Although one-half of the students agreed with this method of evaluation, 15 % disagreed. The usefulness ofthis new method is discussed, based on our results.