Development and validation of a student-centred evaluation instrument for nursing teaching in China

ABSTRACT

Student evaluations of teaching have considerable impact on teaching improvement. However, there is no reliable instrument that can reflect nursing students’ perspectives of teaching evaluations in China. To design a student-centred evaluation instrument of nursing teaching in China, we developed and psychometrically tested the Nursing Course Experience Questionnaire (NCEQ). A literature review, student focus group interviews, student group discussion, Delphi survey, and a pilot test were used to confirm the content of the questionnaire. The data from 581 nursing students were randomly divided into sample A (n = 283) for exploratory factor analysis and sample B (n = 298) for confirmatory factor analysis and questionnaire reliability assessment. The final version of the NCEQ included 31 items and 6 sub-scales. The Cronbach’s α was 0.968 for the whole questionnaire and >0.751 for the sub-scales, which indicated that the NCEQ was an effective instrument that can be employed to evaluate nursing students’ perspectives on teaching in China.

KEYWORDS:

• Nursing education
• student evaluation
• instrument development
• student-centred
• psychometrics

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Funding

This work was supported by Leading Group Office of the Education Science Program of Fujian Province of China under Grant number [FJJKCGZ18-790]; Educational Administration Office of Fujian Medical University under Grant number [J18023].

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Linghui Chen

Linghui Chen is postgraduate in Fujian Medical University, whose academic direction is nursing education and clinical general nursing.

Ting Lin

Ting Lin is an associate professor, and the director of the Department of Fundamental Nursing in Fujian Medical University, who has been a teacher in nursing for about 20 years and has accumulated rich experience in scientific research. In recent years, she has published more than 20 papers as the first author and correspondent author. She has hosted 1 provincial natural science foundation project, 4 hall-level projects and 1 education reform project, and has participated in 2 national education reform projects. She has received the first prize of the school-level teaching achievement award.