Course validation – a quantitative step forward.
The buzz word for practical courses is validation. Essentially does going on a course lead to improvements – does a course really enhance a trainees dexterity skills. Whilst it is easy to assess how a course improves a trainees knowledge base using formative and summative assessments is more difficult to quantitatively assess dexterity skills especially longitudinally. We have always had formative assessments during our course.