CONSTRUCTION OF AN INSTRUMENT FOR USE IN THE EVALUATION OF TEACHING EFFECTIVENESS IN NURSING EDUCATION.
Contributors: University of Northern Colorado.
Published: 1985
Number of pages: 129
Subjects: Education, Higher.
Description: The purpose of the present study was to construct and validate a teaching evaluation instrument for use in nursing education at Khon Kaen University in Thailand.

The instrument was developed by using a mixed format of forced-choice and graphic scale. It consisted of 20 tetrads. Each tetrad had two high and two low discrimination index statements.

The instrument was administered to 368 nursing students who were enrolled in the second semester of 1983-1984 at Khon Kaen University. Forty-six nursing instructors were rated which resulted in 840 usable ratings.

Varimax factor analysis was performed. Five factors emerged from the instrument and were named: Personal Attributes, Course Organization, Teaching Techniques, Personal Attention, and Presentation of Knowledge.

Split-half reliability coefficient was found to be .709. Spearman-Brown formula was used to correlate between odd and even item scores.

Four major conclusions were made in the study: (a) the instrument has a high degree of internal validity since the construction procedure involved the use of an index of face validity and an index of empirical validity; (b) the instrument has moderate reliability; (c) the instrument can measure the construct of teaching effectiveness; and (d) the instrument does not have high resistance to leniency bias as only some tetrads seem to show resistance to bias.

The following recommendations were made in view of the results of this study: (1) The instrument should be tested with another group of students and instructors who are trained as professional teachers in order to investigate the factor of cultural bias. (2) Numbers of students and instructors should be increased in the future study. (3) The instrument could be tested in other schools of nursing in order that the results could be generalized. (4) Further check of the validity of the instrument could be done by administering the original 127 items to another group of nursing students. (5) Distribution of ratings of the instrument should be compared with distribution of ratings of another type of scale constructed with the same rationale in order to investigate leniency errors of the instrument.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-08, Section: A, page: 2204.

Thesis (ED.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO, 1985.

School code: 0161.