Designing and Implementation of Evaluation Checklist for Student's Educational Performance

Due to the key importance of tests in achieving optimal quality of educational processes and their essential role in creating favorable changes in knowledge, attitude and practice of students toward educational processes including patient education, development and implementation of tools with comprehensive overview of the evaluation of learners is essential and contributes to the improvement of their performance in different fields.
The aim of this study was to design and implement a checklist to evaluate educational activities of students in patient education course.
This study was performed with methodological approach during 2013-2016. A checklist with eight dimensions was designed to evaluate students’ educational performance. Face and content validity of the checklist was confirmed. In order to confirm the reliability of tools, an agreement between the two raters was used. Kappa formula was used to examine the contingency coefficient of questions which varied between 0.7 and 1, indicating an excellent agreement between the two raters. The internal consistency of checklist (α = 0.8) was approved.
The main dimensions of checklist included designing lesson plans to teach students/patients and clients (15 items) , quality of presentation (17 items) , quality of modern teaching methods (role-modelling) (10 items) , quality of educational scenario (6 items) , quality of teamwork of learners (8 items) , quality of teaching aids (slides provided in the PowerPoint software (12 items) , poster, pamphlet, booklets (16 items)) and quality of media and social networks (Blog, Telegram, Instagram) (16 items) used in the educational process by students.
Discussion and Having a holistic and comprehensive vision to develop evaluation tools of educational activities can be an effective step towards achieving the goals of education. Further research in other educational settings by using the designed tool and assessing its generalization is suggested.