How culture affects validity: understanding Japanese residents' sense-making of evaluating clinical teachers.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Traditionally, evaluation is considered a measurement process that can be performed independently of the cultural context. However, more recently the importance of considering raters' sense-making, that is, the process by which raters assign meaning to their collective experiences, is being recognised. Thus far, the majority of the discussion on this topic has originated from Western perspectives. Little is known about the potential influence of an Asian culture on raters' sense-making. This study explored residents' sense-making associated with evaluating their clinical teachers within an Asian setting to better understand contextual dependency of validity.

Design

A qualitative study using constructivist grounded theory.

Setting

The Japanese Ministry of He

SUBMITTER: Kikukawa M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8375773 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature