A literature search was undertaken guided by a pro-
tocol restricting the publication dates to 1997–
2006; search terms used included the use of Bool-
ean operators to link key words (student nursing
or nurse education) and (evaluation or curriculum
evaluation) post-97 from CINAHL to Nursing educa-
tion and (evaluation or course evaluation) post-97
from BNI. These two databases contain the major-
ity of nursing papers and it was considered that lit-
tle would be gained by searching elsewhere. Papers
retrieved were read and filtered by three of the
authors (RW, MR, MJ) to decide, by consensus,
which were relevant to the present review.