Design and validation of an instrument to measure assessment strategies of Medicine teachers

Abstract

Backgound: The relation between what students learn and what is evaluated has been a relevant issue in higher education, and a research topic that has caught health’s programs attention, especially in medicine.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to design and validate an instrument that would allow to know and describe the strategies used by Medicine professors from El Bosque University, in Bogotá, Colombia, which strengthens its pe¬dagogical model of student centered learning based on the Institutional Learning Objectives (OIA), which must be evaluated to verify their achievement. This was done to evaluate the level of achievement of the students’ training competences.

Methods: It was identified two categories that should make up the instrument: curricular references and evaluation of appropriation. Subsequently the level of content validity was described thought judges’ agreement based on the Lawshe model with modifications from Tristán y Molgado.

Results: The results showed that the instrument designed allows measuring the categories and subcategories pro- posed and that the items provide valuable information about each of them. The developed test can be used for educational research purposes making the appropriate adjustments, according to the particular characteristics of the educational institution, the program and the research objectives.

Conclusions: The instrument can be used for evaluation of achievement of the students’ training competences and for educational research.