Investigation on the reliability of teaching evaluation by medical students
- VernacularTitle:医学部学生による授業評価の信頼性に関する検討
- Author:
Akinobu YOSHIMURA
;
Toshiro SHIMURA
;
Ryoko ASO
;
Toshihiro TAKIZAWA
;
Shigeo AKIRA
;
Hirooki KUNINOBU
;
Akira TERAMOTO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
evaluation of teaching;
reliability;
medical students;
medical education
- From:Medical Education
2007;38(6):377-381
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
-
Abstract:
There are some methods of evaluating teaching: student-, self-, peer- and third person-evaluation etc. Validity, reliability and feasibility are required for assessing the quality of teaching. Therefore, we examined the reliability of teaching evaluation by medical students in Nippon Medical School in comparison with peer evaluation.
1) Twenty-four clinical lectures during the same school year were arbitrarily chosen as objectives. Correlations between student- and peer-evaluations in both generalized ratings and global assessment were analyzed by Pearson's correlation coefficient and Spearman's correlation coefficient by rank.
2) In generalized ratings, a significant correlation between the evaluations was demonstrated (r=0.532, p=0.0056), while a marginal correlation between the evaluations was observed in global assessment (p=0.0492).
3) The results probably provide evidence of the reliability of teaching evaluation by medical students.
4) The criteria for evaluation and the validity of questionnaires should be defined for a more reliable teaching evaluation by medical students.
