Evaluating

Evaluating

Pre-Course Stage

Evaluation Type

Process/Program

Things you will need to think about

Determine audience: are you teaching and evaluating students, new graduates, fieldwork coordinators, or a mix?

  • Equipment required/optimal for delivery.
  • Theoretical information, practical competencies for manual wheelchair skills & evaluation of clinical competencies.
  • Educator expertise to deliver content.
  • Clinician input.
  • Determine implementation team, including but not limited to teaching assistants.
  • Space/resources required and optimal.
  • Identify delivery strategy (in-person; online; hybrid; knowledge/hands-on).
  • Health systems framework.
  • Consider national & international differences in terms of wheelchair education (where it’s given: classroom, internships, clinics, hospitals).
  • Dedicated time by key stakeholders.

Ways to measure your goal

  • Hours of instruction included (and relates to extent of content expected to be covered).
  • Standard material for instruction (with consistency and relevancy in multiple settings and contexts).
  • Competency checklist (self-evaluation or by a peer).

Resources and Strategies 

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Clinical Impact

Things you will need to think about

  • Need/desire for additional training, upgrading, proficiency – continuing education (and needs & resources to support this).
  • Development of post-graduate networks, communities of practice, supports.
  • User experience and satisfaction.

Ways to measure your goal

  • Create needs assessment amongst staff to see if there are any identifiable gaps in knowledge or a desire for training in specific areas.

Resources and Strategies 

  • Continuing education courses in wheeled seating and mobility.
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Sustainability

Things you will need to think about

  • Identify trainee levels (e.g., entry-to-practice; post-graduate; community-based training programs).
  • Identify whether the training should be based on the WHO definitions of Basic or Intermediate Wheelchair Service Provision.
  • How will the program be developed and sustained over time, and updated based on new research evidence (both informing content and pedagogy).
  • What is the program vision?
  • Advocate for and obtain commitment from organization and faculty.
  • Map content with learning objectives.
  • Set up context-specific evaluation criteria and monitoring system.

Ways to measure your goal

  • Sustainability indicators to monitor, measure and respond to.
  • Commitment statement and investment at organizational (Health service) and faculty (University/education provider) levels.
  • Organization administration’s faculty monitoring procedure for sustaining program; criteria/metrics to support course going forward; minimum number to run program.

Resources and Strategies 

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