Designing and psychometric the measure for determining the professional competence of nursing faculty members | Zendy

Eesa Mohammadi | Zendy; Hedayat Jafari | Zendy; Fazlollah Ahmadi | Zendy; Anoshirvan Kazemnejad | Zendy

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Designing and psychometric the measure for determining the professional competence of nursing faculty members

Author(s) -

Eesa Mohammadi,

Hedayat Jafari,

Fazlollah Ahmadi,

Anoshirvan Kazemnejad

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

journal of nursing and midwifery sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2345-5764

pISSN - 2345-5756

DOI - 10.18869/acadpub.jnms.1.2.8

Subject(s) - cronbach's alpha , construct validity , content validity , face validity , competence (human resources) , nursing , psychology , exploratory factor analysis , validity , nurse education , exploratory research , medical education , psychometrics , medicine , clinical psychology , social psychology , sociology , anthropology

Background and Purpose: of the significant processes for educational quality promotion is to evaluate the teachers' competency. This study has been conducted with the goal for Designing and psychometric the Measure for Determining the Professional Competence of Nursing Faculty Members. Methods: the present research is the qualitative part of a sequential exploratory combined study of the concept known as competency where first through a qualitative study, a questionnaire with the appropriate items has been extracted from nursing teachers being evaluated by the students, and then this questionnaire has been psychometrically tested via a methodological study. The face validity has been evaluated by considering nursing students & nursing faculty staff & the content validity by nursing experts' judgment. The construct validity has also been done using exploratory factor analysis. Results: in the content validity stage, the total mean of tool validity index has been calculated 0.92.The minimum item impact score obtained in qualitative face validity was 3.4.The results of the construct validity brought about 4 factors: commitment & follow-up for making the theoretical & clinical education effective, student nurturing, mastership ethics & character, the capability for educational & research management.Alpha-Cronbach was achieved 0.96 & reliability with re-test as 0.94. Conclusion: the questionnaire has been designed using the main stakeholders' experiences & then psychometrically tested. And it can be employed for evaluating nursing faculty staff professional competency.

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