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Assessing professional perceptions: design and validation of an Interdisciplinary Education Perception Scale.

R M Luecht1, M K Madsen, M P Taugher

  • 1American College Testing, STAR Department, Iowa City, Iowa 52243.

Journal of Allied Health
|January 1, 1990
PubMed
Summary

A new Interdisciplinary Education Perception Scale (IEPS) assesses allied health students' professional views and feelings. This validated tool provides data for evaluating interdisciplinary education programs effectively.

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Area of Science:

  • Health Professions Education
  • Interdisciplinary Studies
  • Educational Assessment

Background:

  • Growth in interdisciplinary allied health programs necessitates advanced assessment methods.
  • Traditional performance indicators are insufficient for evaluating professional perceptions and affective domains.
  • Need for a validated instrument to measure student perceptions in interdisciplinary health education.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To design and validate the Interdisciplinary Education Perception Scale (IEPS).
  • To provide a tool for assessing professionally oriented perceptions in allied health students.
  • To establish normative data for the IEPS across different disciplines.

Main Methods:

  • Development of the Interdisciplinary Education Perception Scale (IEPS).

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  • Validation of the IEPS instrument.
  • Collection of cross-disciplinary normative data and statistical power estimates.

    • Main Results:

    • Successful design and validation of the IEPS.
    • Presentation of scoring procedures for the IEPS.
    • Provision of normative data and power estimates for research application.

    Conclusions:

    • The IEPS is a validated instrument for assessing perceptions in interdisciplinary allied health education.
    • The scale can be used in evaluative and research settings for these programs.
    • Normative data supports the appropriate application of the IEPS.