Using Q-methodology in program evaluation: A case study of student perceptions of actual and ideal dietetics education

The transition from traditional to postpositivist policy analysis: A role for Q-methodology

“…Q-methodology can be used to help identify different ways of understanding the value and efficacy of policies that have been implemented. With Q-methodology, evaluators can systematically collect views of the ways that a policy is or is not working [for example, Garrard and Hausman, 1985;Kim, 1991;Oring and Plihal, 1993].…”