http://repub.eur.nl/res/aut/735/ List of Publications en http://repub.eur.nl/static-eur/img/logo.png http://repub.eur.nl http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/2679/ 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Although clinical clerkships are an important and essential part of any medical training program, medical schools' policy makers seem to exert little control on the educational effectiveness of clerkships. However, educational quality of clerkships may be assured and improved by using information from evaluation. The success of the usefulness of evaluation results is clearly associated with the fulfilment of a number of conditions: willingness to adopt a critical attitude, willingness to analyse the existing situation, opportunities to discuss and carry on a dialogue, availability of a plan of action and continuous collection of evaluative data. This paper describes these conditions and the way in which they were translated in the context of clinical clerkships. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/2685/ 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/2702/ 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z An instrument has been developed to assess tutor performance in problem-based tutorial groups. This tutor evaluation questionnaire consists of 13 statements reflecting the tutor's behaviour. The statements are based on a description of the tasks set for the tutor. This study reports results on the validity and reliability of the instrument. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that a three-factor model fitted the data reasonably well. The three factors are: (1) guiding students through the learning process, (2) content knowledge input, and (3) commitment to the group's learning. Generalizability studies indicated that the rating scales provide reliable information with student responses of existing tutorial group sizes. It is concluded that the tutor evaluation questionnaire is a fairly valid and reliable instrument that can be used in staff development programmes.