| Abstract: | Teaching is an important part of the clinician's role, yet the dearth of suitable instruments creates an obstacle to its systematic evaluation. This is turn makes audit difficult and obstructs the feedback to the teacher, so diminishing learning and effectiveness. A new instrument, the Measure of Adult Styles of Teaching and Evaluation Record (MASTER) is offered as a partial solution to these associated problems. In a validity study, the ‘MASTER’ differentiated as predicted between didactic and experiential teaching methods employed to train care staff in an in-service training programme. Inter-rater reliability was also adequate. It is concluded that the MASTER is a sound instrument which can aid audit and the development of clinicians as teachers, but that a more substantive analysis is required before the MASTER can be considered suitable for a major evaluation. |
