Botelho, MG

Comfort, MB

Luo, Y

McGrath, C

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Title Development and evaluation of a questionnaire to evaluateclinical dental teachersAuthor(s) McGrath, C; Comfort, MB; Luo, Y; Botelho, MGCitationThe 81st General Session and Exhibition of the InternationalAssociation for Dental Research, Goteborg, Sweden, 25-28 June2003. In Journal of Dental Research, 2003, v. 82 Sp Iss B,abstract no. 0744Issued Date 2003URL http://hdl.handle.net/10722/53782Rights Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License0744 Development and Evaluation of a Questionnaire to Evaluate Clinical Dental Teachers C. MCGRATH, M.B. COMFORT, Y. LUO, and M.G. BOTELHO, University of Hong Kong, China  Objectives: to develop and test the psychometric properties (validity and reliability) of a measure to evaluate clinical dental teachers. The instruments was based on the Stanford clinical teaching theoretical model, which defines seven categories of effective clinical teaching: learning climate, control of sessions, communication of goals, promotion of understanding and retention, evaluation and feedback. Methods: an item pool was generated with the use of a literature review, feedback from faculty staff, and focus group discussions. The instrument was then piloted for relevance among a random sample of students. Items rated most frequently as relevant to clinic dental learning within the theoretical framework (each of the seven domain) were selected. The psychometric properties of the revised questionnaire was assessed, when students from each clinical year were invited to participate in the project and to rate their clinical dental teachers employing a self-administered questionnaire. Results: the response rate was over 80% and an analysis was only conducted where 10 or more rating existed for a clinical dental teacher. Twenty-nine clinical dental teachers were evaluated involving over 450 assessments. Less than 1% of questionnaires were incomplete demonstrating good face validity. Effective clinical dental teaching (ECDT) scores were associated with ‘global ratings' of effectiveness of clinical dental teaching (P>0.01): indicating strong criterion validity. Comparison analysis demonstrated high levels of agreement (<0.70) between students ratings of how effective clinical teachers were, which supports the construct validity of the measure. Mean directional difference in ECDT scores were small suggesting the effects of student bias was minimal. Inter-item correlation between the items within each domain and the effective clinical dental teaching questionnaire overall was high (>0.69), suggesting strong internal reliability. Conclusions: a valid and reliable measure to evaluate the effectiveness of clinical dental teaching has been developed. This has implications within dental academia and educational management.    Seq #85 - Education Research Oral Session 1 1:45 PM-3:45 PM, Thursday, 26 June 2003 Svenska Massan R02   Back to the Education Research Program  Back to the 81st General Session of the International Association for Dental Research (June 25-28, 2003)     

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