Abstract
Background and Purpose: Of the significant processes for educational quality promotion is to evaluate the teachers' competency.
This study has been conducted with the goal for Designing and psychometric the Measure for Determining the Professional
Competence of Nursing Faculty Members.
Methods: The present research is the qualitative part of a sequential exploratory combined study of the concept known as
competency where first through a qualitative study, a questionnaire with the appropriate items has been extracted from nursing
teachers being evaluated by the students, and then this questionnaire has been psychometrically tested via a methodological study.
The face validity has been evaluated by considering nursing students & nursing faculty staff & the content validity by nursing
experts' judgment. The construct validity has also been done using exploratory factor analysis.
Results: In the content validity stage, the total mean of tool validity index has been calculated 0.92.The minimum item impact
score obtained in qualitative face validity was 3.4.The results of the construct validity brought about 4 factors: commitment
& follow-up for making the theoretical & clinical education effective, student nurturing, mastership ethics & character, the
capability for educational & research management.Alpha-Cronbach was achieved 0.96 & reliability with re-test as 0.94.
Conclusion: The questionnaire has been designed using the main stakeholders' experiences & then psychometrically tested. And
it can be employed for evaluating nursing faculty staff professional competency.
This study has been conducted with the goal for Designing and psychometric the Measure for Determining the Professional
Competence of Nursing Faculty Members.
Methods: The present research is the qualitative part of a sequential exploratory combined study of the concept known as
competency where first through a qualitative study, a questionnaire with the appropriate items has been extracted from nursing
teachers being evaluated by the students, and then this questionnaire has been psychometrically tested via a methodological study.
The face validity has been evaluated by considering nursing students & nursing faculty staff & the content validity by nursing
experts' judgment. The construct validity has also been done using exploratory factor analysis.
Results: In the content validity stage, the total mean of tool validity index has been calculated 0.92.The minimum item impact
score obtained in qualitative face validity was 3.4.The results of the construct validity brought about 4 factors: commitment
& follow-up for making the theoretical & clinical education effective, student nurturing, mastership ethics & character, the
capability for educational & research management.Alpha-Cronbach was achieved 0.96 & reliability with re-test as 0.94.
Conclusion: The questionnaire has been designed using the main stakeholders' experiences & then psychometrically tested. And
it can be employed for evaluating nursing faculty staff professional competency.
Keywords
Professional competency Questionnaire Nursing faculty staff Psychometrics
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