EVALUATION OF A NURSING EDUCATION PROGRAM USING STAKE'S COUNTENANCE EVALUATION MODEL.
Contributors: Northern Illinois University.
Published: 1988
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Education, Curriculum and Instruction.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The need for a comprehensive education evaluation model which incorporates all aspects of evaluation, and coordinates the functions of evaluation in a nursing education program, prompted this study.

The program evaluated was the Nursing Education Program at Northwestern University. The subjects for this study were full-time nursing students from the classes of 1982 through 1984. The data were collected from students' journals, written work, and postgraduate questionnaire.

The model selected was Stake's Countenance Evaluation Model. This model has two major activities: description and judgment of what is being evaluated. The Countenance Evaluation Model gives the evaluator a conceptual framework for thinking through the process of a creative and rational comprehensive evaluation.

Descriptive research was used to test the research questions. Data collection and analyses were done according to the descriptive and judgment matrices of Stake's model. The comparisons were made with relative and absolute standards. Further, the effectiveness of the Countenance model was judged by comparing it with the Joint Committee Standards.

From the findings of the study, the following conclusions were drawn: (1) The Nursing Education Program at Northwestern University accomplished its stated objectives. (2) The nursing students were utilizing the program's conceptual framework in their clinical settings. (3) Graduates were compatible as well as comparable with students from the other programs when tested on the Registered Nurses' licensure examination. (4) Stake's Countenance Evaluation Model was effective in evaluating the Nursing Education Program at Northwestern University, except that there were some concerns about its feasibility.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-06, Section: A, page: 1549.

Thesis (ED.D.)--NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, 1988.

School code: 0162.