Variability of residents' ratings of faculty's teaching performance measured by five- and seven-point response scales.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical faculty's teaching performance is often measured using residents' feedback, collected by questionnaires. Researchers extensively studied the psychometric qualities of resulting ratings. However, these studies rarely consider the number of response categories and its consequences for residents' ratings of faculty's teaching performance. We compared the variability of residents' ratings measured by five- and seven-point response scales.

Methods

This retrospective study used teaching performance data from Dutch anaesthesiology residency training programs. Questionnaires with five- and seven-point response scales from the extensively studied System for Evaluation of Teaching Qualities (SETQ) collected the ratings. We inspected ratings' variability by comparing

SUBMITTER: Debets MPM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7510269 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature