title: Nursing students' evaluation of classroom teaching: developing and testing an instrument.
abstract: Although literature on instruments measuring classroom teaching is abundant, it is difficult to find an established tool that meets the specific evaluation needs of faculty teaching in a contemporary nursing college. This methodological study developed and tested an instrument for student completion that assessed the effectiveness of a faculty member's classroom teaching in a modern curriculum. The items were developed from a literature review and feedback from content experts. Four midwestern nursing schools participated in the assessment of the instrument's reliability and validity. A coefficient alpha of .98 was reported for internal consistency (N = 233) and r = .85 (p < .001) for test-retest reliability (n = 35). Factor analysis revealed one dominant factor that measured effective traits/methods in classroom teaching. This factor's eigenvalue of 28.95 accounted for 60% of the total variance.
authors.affiliation: University of Nebraska Medical Center at Lincoln, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Campbell-Grossman
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pozehl
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zimmerman
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D015402:Nursing Education Research / Q000379:methods; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research / Q000379:methods*; D015399:Nursing Research; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013338:Students, Nursing; D013663:Teaching / Q000592:standards