Development of an Educational Needs Assessment Tool for Clinical Instructors:To Offer Continuing Education Programs Supporting Role Performance of Clinical Instructors

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop an Educational Needs Assessment Tool for Clinical Instructors, which had wellestablished reliability and validity. Forty-nine items for the total were created, based on 7 aspects. These aspects were identified through qualitative and inductive research findings that indicated clinical instructors’ desirable behavior as perceived by other clinical instructors. The 49 items were grouped into 7 subscales corresponding to the 7 aspects. Content validity of the assessment tool was established by a panel of experts and a pilot study. The instrument packets, including the assessment tool and a demographic questionnaire, were distributed to a total of 1,309 clinical instructors who worked at hospitals all over Japan.Seven hundred and fifty three（ 57.5%） clinical instructors responded, of which 726 valid responses were analyzed. Item analyses were conducted, and the original 49 items were reduced to 35 items. Cronbach’s alpha, a reliability coefficient of the assessment tool was .937. Test-retest reliability was .769（ p＜.001）. These results suggested that the assessment tool has high internal consistency and stability. The results of a factor analysis and a known-group method showed that the construct validity of the assessment tool was generally ascertained.