Construct validity and internal reliability of physiotherapy teacher evaluation scale
Journal Title: Journal of Advances in Education and Philosophy - Year 2017, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
Abstract:Evaluation of teaching is not a science and there is already a considerable body of knowledge discussing these relations about teaching evaluation. There is no simple system for evaluating the quality of faculty teaching in physiotherapy education field. The main objectives of this study was to develop a scale which consists of items seeking an opinion from students on both the clinical and academic areas of the teaching of a physiotherapy teacher and to establish the content construct validity and internal reliability of the components of the scale. Physiotherapy teacher evaluation scale (PhyTES), a self-reported Likert's type scale which consists of 22 items to be attempted by the students to evaluate a physiotherapy teacher. The participants were from Sarvajanik College of physiotherapy, a premier institute affiliated to Veer Narmad South Gujarat University. A principal component analysis was run to establish construct validity of the items in the scale and an item analysis was done to check the reliability of the scale components and its Cronbach's alpha. It was gratifying to note that, the reduction of the items from 22 in the original instrument to 15 in the final version resulted in a significant improvement in reliability, validity or consistency of the scale And the component Factors or dimensions which were extracted from the analysis were named as Academic interest, personal attributes, concern for teaching, time management, and student concern. Keywords:construct validity, internal consistency, physiotherapy teacher evaluation
Authors and Affiliations
Thangamani Ramalingam A, Dibyendunarayan D. Bid, S. N. Senthilkumar
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