EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF TEACHING AND EDUCATION IN STUDENTS OF SPECIALTY PHYSICAL THERAPY, OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY: ADAPTATION OF THE UKRAINIAN VERSION OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE K. ETLQ
Authors: Tymruk- Skoropad К. А. , Tsizh L. М. , Pavlova Iu. A. 
Published: July 2021

The quality of education as an indicator of the development of society is characterized by various aspects and should be considered in the time dynamics. It is important to provide an opportunity to analyze and evaluate the quality of a significant component of the educational process as a training course. In order to improve the quality of educational activities in higher education institutions of Ukraine, tools for assessing the quality assurance system of higher education are being actively developed today.

Objective: linguistic and cross-cultural adaptation of the tool "Questionnaire on the experience of teaching and learning" Experiences of Teaching and Learning Questionnaire in Ukrainian.

Materials and methods. The study involved 632 students aged 2-6 years majoring in 227 - physical therapy, occupational therapy Lviv State University of Physical Culture named after Ivan Boberskyj in order to assess the disciplines of the curriculum. Data collection was conducted during the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 academic years. Respondents rated 17 training courses.  

Results. "Questionnaire on teaching and learning experience" - a tool that allows you to take into account and predict the impact of various factors on student learning outcomes of different specializations and levels of education, professional experience, motivation, etc., it is also suitable for use in different cultural environments. The survey was conducted on the following content blocks: "Approaches to teaching and learning", "Teaching and learning experience", "Training course requirements" and "What did you learn in this training course". Additional requirements of the course that students wanted to assess in the content block 3 are related to the organization of training, the structure and content of the course and the interaction between teacher and student. According to content block 4, from 41.46% to 55.85% of students indicated that they additionally received "quite a lot" of achievements related to the course and related to the activities of the student.

Final rating scale for how well students managed to pass the course showed that 70% or more of the answers were high marks for passing the course (7, 8 and 9 points) were noted by senior students, in contrast to 2nd year students who rated themselves lower.

Based on the results of studying the results of the questionnaire, taking into account the comments of respondents and the recommendations of the editor, the final adapted Ukrainian version of the Questionnaire on teaching and learning experience (ETLQ) was formed.

Discussion of results. Researchers emphasize that students rely on knowledge, understanding and previous learning experience when studying any discipline. Reforming and improving the educational programs of the first and second educational levels of the specialty 227 physical therapy, occupational therapy in accordance with the new needs of the health care sector, approved educational standards and world standards continues.

Conclusions. Linguistic and cross-cultural validation of the Teaching and Learning Experience Questionnaire (ETLQ) proved that the questionnaire is understandable and acceptable for the development and content of training courses, adjusting the approaches used by the teacher. The questionnaire allows the student to comprehend the efforts spent by him during training for high-quality training courses and increase the effectiveness of training.