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Design of a perceived quality scale in orthopaedic surgery education
José A de Pedro1, Pilar Jiménez-Tello2, Ana Castel3
1Department of Orthopaedics, University of Salamanca, Spain.
Objectives:
The experience of students contributes to proactively identifying the changes necessary in training approaches and activities. The main objective of the Institutional Evaluation Programme was to design and validate a tool that permits discerning the experience of students from traumatology teaching.
Methods:
Lecturers from the Orthopaedic Surgery Teaching Unit and experts in quality evaluation methodology, prepared the initial items. In this study, a descriptive analysis was carried out first, followed by an analysis of internal consistency and reliability, construction validity, and predictive validity.
Results:
The results (Cronbach's alpha=0.58, Inter-Item Correlations >0.5, Eigenvalues >0.6, factor loadings, and the Student t-test values) confirmed its reliability and validity.
Conclusions:
The developed scale is reliable and valid to assess the experience of students. The use of a tool with these characteristics systematically contributes to improve teaching quality.