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    Area of Science:

    • Medical Education
    • Psychometrics
    • Workplace Learning

    Background:

    • Educators need validated tools to assess workplace learning environments (WLEs).
    • Existing tools often fail to capture the social, organizational, and physical aspects of WLEs.
    • Understanding perceived workplace characteristics is crucial for optimizing learner development.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop and validate a tool measuring workplace characteristics impacting cardiology fellows' learning.
    • To assess the social, organizational, and physical components of echocardiography WLEs.
    • To provide a psychometric instrument for evaluating learning environments in medical subspecialties.

    Main Methods:

    • Development of the Workplace-Cognitive Load Tool (W-CLT) with 17 items.
    • Exploratory factor analysis to determine the optimal structure of the W-CLT.
    • Survey administered to 646 cardiology fellows across 60 programs; 308 responded (49% response rate).
    • Validity evidence collected using the unified model of validity.

    Main Results:

    • The W-CLT demonstrated a 4-factor structure: workplace-task, workplace-environment, workplace-orientation, and workplace-teaching and feedback.
    • All factors exhibited high reliability (Cronbach's α ranging from 0.92 to 0.96).
    • Significant correlations were observed between factors, indicating interplay between different workplace characteristics and their impact on learning.

    Conclusions:

    • The W-CLT effectively measures cardiology fellows' perceptions of workplace characteristics influencing learning.
    • The tool's structure highlights the importance of social, organizational, and physical factors in WLEs.
    • The W-CLT serves as a foundation for future research on optimizing learning in various WLEs.