Dear fellow RAMESES participants,
this is my first post on the list serve ( oh my, that does sound like an introduction at an AA meeting) and I was hoping for a little advice.
I am engaged in a study of interprofessional clinical education for pre-qualification healthcare professional students and am attempting to conduct a realist evaluation. The design is structured around the application of the realist cycle. In reviewing the literature where a realist evaluation has been stated as being used in IPE evaluative studies, I have noticed that context is dealt with well in the majority of studies, but mechanisms are not. It appears that many studies elude to mechanisms but the items they identify are more characteristic of features of the program design, or could be argued to be context items, and do not describe the interaction of resources and reasoning. The studies also do not appear go to the stage of identifying CMOC theories.
I wanted to ask if this a common issue in realist evaluation studies and ask for some recommendations for studies that the RAMESES community would recommend as exemplars of realist evaluation.
Barbara Maxwell
Professor & University Director of Interprofessional Education & Collaboration
A. T. Still University
5850 E Still Circle
Mesa AZ 85142
USA
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