Development and testing of the Educators' Professional Development scale (EduProDe) for the assessment of social and health care educators' continuing professional development.
Continuing professional development
Educator
Factor analysis
Health care
Scale development
Social care
Journal
Nurse education today
ISSN: 1532-2793
Titre abrégé: Nurse Educ Today
Pays: Scotland
ID NLM: 8511379
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Mar 2021
Mar 2021
Historique:
received:
03
12
2019
revised:
09
10
2020
accepted:
01
11
2020
pubmed:
28
11
2020
medline:
22
6
2021
entrez:
27
11
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Social and health care educators are crucial to educating competent professionals that are prepared to work in a rapidly changing society. Previous studies have primarily assessed educators' continuing professional development from a single perspective. It would be important to gauge educators' perceptions about their professional development from multiple dimensions to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the current learning process. To develop and validate a new educators' professional development scale that is relevant to social and health care education institutions. The development and validation of the scale comprised four phases: defining continuing professional development; creating an item pool; an expert review of the item pool; and psychometric testing of the scale. Face and content validity were evaluated by two expert panels. The initial item pool included 104 items, with 41 remaining after the expert review. A total of 2330 social and health care educators from 29 organizations were invited to respond to the developed self-assessment survey. The response rate was 18% (n = 422). Explorative factor analysis identified six factors, including a total of 22 items, that accounted for 68.37% of the total variance. The factors defined different elements of continuing professional development for educators, namely, "need for pedagogical development" (7 items), "need to manage challenging situations in teaching" (3 items), "leadership of competence development" (3 items), "self-directed learning" (3 items), "need to develop clinical competence" (3 items) and "benefits of professional development" (3 items). Internal consistency for the six subscales, measured through Cronbach's alpha coefficient, ranged from 0.70 to 0.89. The EduProDe scale is a relevant and reliable tool for the planning and evaluation of continuing professional development processes or programs designed for educators of social and health care students.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
Social and health care educators are crucial to educating competent professionals that are prepared to work in a rapidly changing society. Previous studies have primarily assessed educators' continuing professional development from a single perspective. It would be important to gauge educators' perceptions about their professional development from multiple dimensions to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the current learning process.
AIM
OBJECTIVE
To develop and validate a new educators' professional development scale that is relevant to social and health care education institutions.
METHOD
METHODS
The development and validation of the scale comprised four phases: defining continuing professional development; creating an item pool; an expert review of the item pool; and psychometric testing of the scale. Face and content validity were evaluated by two expert panels. The initial item pool included 104 items, with 41 remaining after the expert review. A total of 2330 social and health care educators from 29 organizations were invited to respond to the developed self-assessment survey. The response rate was 18% (n = 422).
RESULTS
RESULTS
Explorative factor analysis identified six factors, including a total of 22 items, that accounted for 68.37% of the total variance. The factors defined different elements of continuing professional development for educators, namely, "need for pedagogical development" (7 items), "need to manage challenging situations in teaching" (3 items), "leadership of competence development" (3 items), "self-directed learning" (3 items), "need to develop clinical competence" (3 items) and "benefits of professional development" (3 items). Internal consistency for the six subscales, measured through Cronbach's alpha coefficient, ranged from 0.70 to 0.89.
CONCLUSION
CONCLUSIONS
The EduProDe scale is a relevant and reliable tool for the planning and evaluation of continuing professional development processes or programs designed for educators of social and health care students.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33243461
pii: S0260-6917(20)31507-0
doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104657
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
104657Informations de copyright
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