Development of a Student-rated Summative Teaching Evaluation Scale (STES-SR) Applicable to Psychiatric Nursing Education

This paper reports the development of a student-rated instrument for the summative teaching evaluation which can be utilized in nursing education. A pool of 56 items’ for the first draft of the evaluation scale was compiled from the available student-rated instruments based on an extensive literature review and expert opinion. Initial draft of the Student Rated Summative Teaching Evaluation Scale (STES-SR) with 50 items was formulated after removing 6 items with a Itemized Content Validity Ratio, ICVR of < 0.68 from the item pool by incorporating the reviews by a panel of 10 experts from the field of nursing education. During the second stage, pilot-test administration of the instrument on 20 randomly selected student nurses was done and their difficulties with interpretation were reviewed. Two difficult-to-interpret items were removed from the initial draft of the STES-SR and thus the final draft of the STES-SR with 48 items was formulated and field-tested among 100 randomly selected student nurses from 4 different classes (25 each from the classes). Reliability of the scale was estimated in terms of internal consistency and split-half reliability. It was revealed that the STES-SR having high internal consistency (Chronbach's α>0.75) and high reliability with significant (p<0.001) positive Pearson r value. Adaptation of the STES-SR would be helpful in determining the teaching effectiveness in a nursing education program.