Factors Determining Students' Global Satisfaction with Clerkships: An Analysis of a Two Year Students' Ratings Database

Autor/inn/en	Durak, Halil Ibrahim; Vatansever, Kevser; van Dalen, Jan; van der Vleuten, Cees
Titel	Factors Determining Students' Global Satisfaction with Clerkships: An Analysis of a Two Year Students' Ratings Database
Quelle	In: Advances in Health Sciences Education, 13 (2008) 4, S.495-502 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1382-4996
DOI	10.1007/s10459-007-9061-7
Schlagwörter	Feedback (Response); Teacher Effectiveness; Participant Satisfaction; Questionnaires; Factor Analysis; Learning Processes; Clinical Teaching (Health Professions); Medical Schools; Program Evaluation; Student Attitudes; Student Surveys; Premedical Students; Medical Education; Multivariate Analysis; Regression (Statistics); Clinical Experience; Undergraduate Study + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Fragebogen; Faktorenanalyse; Learning process; Lernprozess; Medizinische Ausbildung; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Schülerverhalten; Schülerbefragung; Multivariate Analyse; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Grundstudium
Abstract	Clerkships would benefit from teachers' improved understanding of the didactic aspects of their task. The purpose of this study is to identify factors that determine the teaching quality of clerkships and to examine the predictive value of these factors for students' global satisfaction. Thus, results would be further reflected to clinical teachers' tasks. These factors could then be taken into account in future clinical teaching. In this paper, a medical faculty's 2 year data set of student feedback from a systematic programme evaluation project was used. A factor analysis was performed on 11,780 student questionnaires. Factor loads, and the Cronbach's alpha coefficients of the questionnaire and factors were calculated. In order to examine the contributions of the factors to the students' global satisfaction, the study included a multivariate stepwise regression analysis. The analysis revealed four factors, which together explained 60.24% of the variance: Structure & Process (44.66%); Time (5.8 %); Outcome (5.35%) and Input (4.39%). The Structure & Process factor was found to be the best predictor of students' global satisfaction (R[superscript 2]= 0.537). Our conclusion is that "efforts to improve clerkship quality should focus on students' learning processes and clerkship structure". (As Provided).
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