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Table 2 Illuminative Evaluation Framework

From: An assessment of a ‘training-of-trainers programme for clinic committees’ in a South African district: a qualitative exploratory study

IEF overview

Enables researches to →

1. Explore the educational process

2. Explore programme outcomes

3. Explore its consequences

The aims of illuminative evaluation are to study an innovatory programme →

1. How it operates

2. How it is influences by the various situations in which it is applied

3. What those directly concerned think are its advantages and how students’ intellectual tasks and academic experiences are most affected

It seeks to document and discover what it is like to be →

1. Participating in the scheme, whether as student or teacher

2. It looks for the most significant features and critical processes of the innovation (in this case, the ToF Learning Programme)

  1. Source: Taken from Smith, Masterson & Lask, 1995; 246