Developing and Testing a Nursing Teaching Quality Scale

[[abstract]]This study was aimed to develop and test a scale for nursing student evaluation of teaching quality. The conceptual model used herein was derived from system theory. The scale was developed by a group of experts in course evaluation he tool included input, process and output, as well as the psychometric properties of the measure were initially tested on a convenient sample of ninety nine students. Both the internal consistency alpha of 0.91 and the test-retest reliability of 0.81 supported the reliability of the scale. Meanwhile, the content validity and exploratory factor analysis documented instrument validity. The content validity agreement was 0.86, and exploratory factor analysis results suggested that the scale was a single factor structure, which could account for 68.96% of the variance. The scale was further tested on a random sample of 470 students recruited from a surfing college. Collected data were analyzed with SPSS 8.0 and LISREL8.0 computer software. Item analysis revealed that the coefficient of corrected item-total correlations were＞0.6(p＜.01). Meanwhile, internal consistency α was 0.95, and confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the overall structure model correlates well with the data (χ2/df=3.l6,RMR= .01,GFI= .98,NFI= .99,CN=320) . Results in this study psychometric property of the scale