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Using Learning Outcome Measures to assess Doctoral Nursing Education
Published on: June 21, 2010
Design and testing of classroom and clinical teaching evaluation tools for nursing education
Roberta J Emerson1, Kathie Records
1Intercollegiate College of Nursing/WSU College of Nursing. emersonb@wsu.edu <emersonb@wsu.edu>
Abstract:
Student evaluations of teaching provide administrators an overall picture of the effectiveness of personnel and contribute data for promotion and merit decisions. These evaluations must be assessed for their relevance, validity, and reliability. This paper describes the development process and psychometric testing for clinical (n = 149) and didactic (n = 148) student evaluation of teaching forms for undergraduate and graduate courses in one college of nursing. Validity and reliability results were quite strong for the instruments, both of which evidenced a one-factor solution with factor loadings ranging from .68-.88 and Cronbach's alphas of .96 (Classroom) and .95 (Clinical). The clinical and classroom evaluation tools are relatively short, decreasing the burden on students who need to complete the instruments for multiple instructors in any one semester. Initial testing of the psychometric properties of the tools supports their continued use in colleges of nursing.
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