Development and validation of teacher and student questionnaires measuring inhibitors of curriculum viability

BMC Medical Education

Annemarie Spruijt¹  Mohamed Al Eraky²  Usman Mahboob³  Rehan Ahmed Khan⁴  Jeroen J. G. van Merrienboer⁵ 

[1] Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands;Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia;Institute of Health Professions Education and Research, Khyber Medical University, Peshawar, Pakistan;Islamic International Medical College, Riphah International University, Al-Mizan IIMCT Complex, Old Supreme Court Building, 274 Peshawar Rd, Rawalpindi, Pakistan;School of Health Professions Education, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands;School of Health Professions Education, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands;

关键词: Curriculum;    Standards;    Evaluation;    Viability inhibitors;    Construct validity;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12909-021-02843-0

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundCurriculum viability is determined by the degree to which quality standards have or have not been met, and by the inhibitors that affect attainment of those standards. The literature reports many ways to evaluate whether a curriculum reaches its quality standards, but less attention is paid to the identification of viability inhibitors in different areas of the curriculum that hamper the attainment of quality. The purpose of this study is to develop and establish the reliability and validity of questionnaires that measure the presence of inhibitors in an undergraduate medical curriculum.MethodsTeacher and student questionnaires developed by the authors were sent to medical educationalists for qualitative expert validation and to establish their content validity. To establish the response process validity, cognitive interviews were held with teachers and students to clarify any confusion about the meaning of items in the questionnaires. Reliability and construct validity of the questionnaires were established by responses from 575 teachers and 247 final-year medical students.ResultsQualitative expert validation was provided by 21 experts. The initial teacher and student questionnaires containing respectively 62 items to measure 12 theoretical constructs, and 28 items to measure 7 constructs, were modified to improve their clarity and relevance. The overall scale validity index for the questionnaires was, in order, .95 and .94. Following the cognitive interviews, the resultant teacher and student questionnaires were reduced to respectively 52 and 23 items. Furthermore, after the confirmatory analysis, the final version of the teacher questionnaire was reduced to 25 items to measure 6 constructs and the student questionnaire was reduced to 14 items to measure 3 constructs. Good-for-fit indices were established for the final model and Cronbach alphas of, in order, .89 and .81 were found for the teacher and student questionnaire.ConclusionThe valid and reliable curriculum viability inhibitor questionnaires for teachers and students developed in this study can be used by medical schools to identify inhibitors to achieve standards in different areas of the curriculum.

【 授权许可】

CC BY