You get what you measure: Assessing and reporting student satisfaction with their health and social care educational experience

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 173-178

  El Ansari, Walid ^a   Moseley, Laurence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaluation research; Learning and teaching; Nursing education; Student satisfaction indicators; University

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING STUDENT; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL WORK; STATISTICS; TEACHING; UNITED KINGDOM;

CONSUMER SATISFACTION; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATION, NURSING; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL WORK; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STUDENTS, NURSING; TEACHING;

EID: 79151481144     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2010.05.014     Document Type: Article

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