Journal of Advances in Education and Philosophy (JAEP)
Volume-1 | Issue-01 | 21-28
Original Research Article
Construct validity and internal reliability of physiotherapy teacher evaluation scale
Thangamani Ramalingam A, Dibyendunarayan D. Bid, S.N. Senthilkumar
Published : Nov. 10, 2017
Abstract
Evaluation of teaching is not a science and there is already a considerable
body of knowledge discussing these relations about teaching evaluation. There is no
simple system for evaluating the quality of faculty teaching in physiotherapy
education field. The main objectives of this study was to develop a scale which
consists of items seeking an opinion from students on both the clinical and academic
areas of the teaching of a physiotherapy teacher and to establish the content construct
validity and internal reliability of the components of the scale. Physiotherapy teacher
evaluation scale (PhyTES), a self-reported Likert's type scale which consists of 22
items to be attempted by the students to evaluate a physiotherapy teacher. The
participants were from Sarvajanik College of physiotherapy, a premier institute
affiliated to Veer Narmad South Gujarat University. A principal component analysis
was run to establish construct validity of the items in the scale and an item analysis
was done to check the reliability of the scale components and its Cronbach's alpha. It
was gratifying to note that, the reduction of the items from 22 in the original
instrument to 15 in the final version resulted in a significant improvement in
reliability, validity or consistency of the scale And the component Factors or
dimensions which were extracted from the analysis were named as Academic interest,
personal attributes, concern for teaching, time management, and student concern.