Rasch analysis of the Jefferson Teamwork Observation Guide to improve student reflection after interprofessional education

ABSTRACT

Interprofessional education is expanding and emerging as a focus of health profession education. The development of instruments to identify competency of students is needed to improve interprofessional collaboration in patient care. Our purpose was to investigate the individual Jefferson Teamwork Observation Guide (JTOG) to determine its psychometric properties. Health profession student data (814 surveys) were analyzed using Rasch Modeling to determine the item and person statistics, unidimensionality, scaling performance, and local independence. The psychometric properties of the instrument were strong, but the current model produced a significant ceiling effect. Adaptations to the instrument were recommended to improve the instruments ability to identify competency and provide individual feedback on performance using a Rasch model. The adapted JTOG has strong psychometric properties to help facilitate reflection and to promote collaborative practice competency.

KEYWORDS:

• Teamwork
• measurement
• Rasch
• teaming
• assessment
• reflection

Acknowledgments

Authors thank the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Education (JCIPE) for their participation in the study.

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CRediT author statement

Christopher Keating: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Data Curation, Writing - Original Draft, Visualization, and Project administration. M. Samuel Cheng: Validation, Writing - Review & Editing, and Supervision. Richard Hass: Validation, Writing - Review & Editing, and Supervision. Jasmine Tenpa Lama: Visualization, Writing - reviewing & Editing.

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Notes on contributors

Christopher Keating

Dr. Christopher Keating is an assistant professor and orthopedic physical therapy residency program director at Thomas Jefferson University. He is board-certified in orthopedics and Fellow in the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapists. Dr. Keating is currently pursuing a PhD from Nova Southeastern with a focus on the pain experience in those with lateral elbow tendinopathy. He is a new investigator with the aims of developing a sub-classification system to inform the loading program in those with lateral elbow tendinopathy.

M. Samuel Cheng

Dr. M. Samuel Cheng's research interests include biomechanical use of surface electromyography, clinical outcome researches, kinematic and kinetic analysis, and physiological basis and effectiveness of physical agents. Integrating sensor technology and mobile application for clinical outcome assessment has been his new passion in recent year.

Richard W. Hass

Dr. Richard W. Hass is on the editorial board of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and The Arts and has published over 20 peer reviewed journal articles on performance assessment, creative thinking, mindset, self-efficacy, and self-perceptions of ability. He also works with the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice (JCIPE) as resident psychometrician and maintains many collaborations with colleagues across the United States and Europe. His primary research interests are in cognitive and mathematical models of creative thinking and psychometric validation of performance assessments.