Journal of Education and Health Promotion

Psychometric properties of the Persian version of System for Evaluation of Teaching Qualities by students: A tool for assessing clinical tutors from students’ viewpoint

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

. Fateme Tahmasebi Boldaji 1
. Mitra Amini 2
. Mohammad Mahdi Parvizi 3

1 Student Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Clinical Education Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

2 Clinical Education Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

3 Molecular Dermatology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

Abstract
BACKGROUND: Effective clinical teaching is crucially important for patient care in future. Therefore, 
proper clinical training is essential to make physicians capable of delivering high‑quality health care.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: The present study was a cross‑sectional research. After translating 
the questionnaire into Persian, it was distributed among medical students in the clinical years of 
medical education in teaching hospitals affiliated to Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences 
in 2018. The System for Evaluation of Teaching Qualities (SETQ) has 25 questions in a 6‑scale 
Likert scale that evaluates clinical tutors in five dimensions of teaching and learning environment, 
professional attitude toward students, transferring of goals, evaluation of students, feedback, and 
promoting self‑directed learning. Instrument reliability was assessed by calculating the Cronbach’s 
alpha coefficient, whereas questionnaire content validity was evaluated by relative content validity 
ratio (CVR) and content validity index (CVI). To evaluate the structural validity, an exploratory factor 
analysis was conducted.
RESULTS: The SETQ was completed by 127 medical students. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of the 
total questionnaire was estimated as 0.908. The factor analysis showed that the questionnaire was 
composed of six factors, explaining 66.14% of the total variance. The CVI and CVR indices of the 
individual items were also acceptable.
CONCLUSION: The findings of our study showed that the Persian version of SETQ questionnaire had 
the acceptable reliability and validity to be used in assessing clinical tutors in different hospitals in Iran.

Keywords

Clinical professors
clinical tutors
reliability
System for Evaluation of Teaching Qualities
validity
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Journal of Education and Health Promotion
Volume 12, Issue 3
March 2022
Pages 1-9

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