title: Developing questionnaires for students' evaluation of individual faculty's teaching skills: A Saudi Arabian pilot study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The National Commission for Academic Accreditation and Assessment is responsible for the academic accreditation of universities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Requirements for this include evaluation of teaching effectiveness, evidence-based conclusions, and external benchmarks.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To develop a questionnaire for students' evaluation of the teaching skills of individual instructors and provide a tool for benchmarking.
  
  
  METHODS
  College of Nursing, University of Dammam [UoD], May-June 2009.
  
  
  METHODS
  The original questionnaire was "Monash Questionnaire Series on Teaching (MonQueST) - Clinical Nursing. The UoD modification retained four areas and seven responses, but reduced items from 26 to 20. Outcome measures were factor analysis and Cronbach's alpha coefficient.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Seven Nursing courses were studied, viz.: Fundamentals, Medical, Surgical, Psychiatric and Mental Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, and Family and Community Health. Total number of students was 74; missing data ranged from 5 to 27%. The explained variance ranged from 66.9% to 78.7%. The observed Cornbach's α coefficients ranged from 0.78 to 0.93, indicating an exceptionally high reliability. The students in the study were found to be fair and frank in their evaluation.
authors.affiliation: College of Medicine, University of Dammam, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Abdullah M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Al-Rubaish
authors.forename: Sheikh Idris
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Abdel Rahim
authors.forename: Ammar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hassan
authors.forename: Amein Al
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Ali
authors.forename: Fatma
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mokabel
authors.forename: Mohammed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hegazy
authors.forename: Ladé
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wosornu