Abstract

Student evaluations of teaching provide administrators an overall picture of the effectiveness of personnel and contribute data for promotion and merit decisions. These evaluations must be assessed for their relevance, validity, and reliability. This paper describes the development process and psychometric testing for clinical (n = 149) and didactic (n = 148) student evaluation of teaching forms for undergraduate and graduate courses in one college of nursing. Validity and reliability results were quite strong for the instruments, both of which evidenced a one-factor solution with factor loadings ranging from .68-.88 and Cronbach's alphas of .96 (Classroom) and .95 (Clinical). The clinical and classroom evaluation tools are relatively short, decreasing the burden on students who need to complete the instruments for multiple instructors in any one semester. Initial testing of the psychometric properties of the tools supports their continued use in colleges of nursing.

Submitted: December 17, 2006 · Accepted: February 8, 2007 · Published: April 18, 2007

Recommended Citation

Emerson, Roberta J. and Records, Kathie (2007) "Design and Testing of Classroom and Clinical Teaching Evaluation Tools for Nursing Education," International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship: Vol. 4 : Iss. 1, Article 12.
DOI: 10.2202/1548-923X.1375
Available at: http://www.bepress.com/ijnes/vol4/iss1/art12