Paolo A M, Bonaminio G A, Gibson C, Partridge T, Kallail K
University of Kansas Medical Center, 4960 Murphy, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA.
Teach Learn Med. 2000 Spring;12(2):81-4. doi: 10.1207/S15328015TLM1202_4.
The proliferation of electronic information delivery systems has led to increasing use of e-mail as a rapid method of gathering information. Little research has been conducted on the use of e-mail for collecting curriculum evaluations.
To compare e-mailed and mailed educational evaluations for 4th-year medical students.
Curriculum evaluations were sent to 4th-year medical students who were randomly assigned to receive the survey either by mail or e-mail.
Mailed evaluations yielded a higher return rate, fewer number of students omitting items, and shorter responses to an open-ended question than evaluations completed via e-mail.
Although the findings have limited generalizability because of low response rates and small sample sizes, the results suggest caution when using e-mail to collect curriculum evaluations from 4th-year medical students.
电子信息传递系统的激增导致电子邮件作为一种快速收集信息的方法使用越来越多。关于使用电子邮件收集课程评估的研究很少。
比较通过电子邮件和邮寄方式对四年级医学生进行教育评估的情况。
课程评估被发送给四年级医学生，这些学生被随机分配通过邮寄或电子邮件接收调查问卷。
与通过电子邮件完成的评估相比，邮寄评估的回收率更高，遗漏项目的学生数量更少，对开放性问题的回答更简短。
尽管由于回复率低和样本量小，这些发现的普遍性有限，但结果表明在使用电子邮件从四年级医学生那里收集课程评估时要谨慎。
