Designing and Executing a Checklist for Evaluating Midwifery Students' Practical Skills

Mansoureh Refaei; Hassan Ahmadini; Seyedeh-Zahra Masoumi; Arezoo Shayan

doi:10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_255_19

Designing and Executing a Checklist for Evaluating Midwifery Students' Practical Skills

Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res. 2020 Jun 17;25(4):356-358. doi: 10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_255_19. eCollection 2020 Jul-Aug.

Authors

Mansoureh Refaei¹, Hassan Ahmadini², Seyedeh-Zahra Masoumi¹, Arezoo Shayan¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Midwifery, Mother and Child Care Research Center, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
² PhD Student of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.

Abstract

Background: This study aimed to design and execute a reliable checklist for evaluating midwifery students' clinical skills.

Materials and methods: In this cross-sectional study, 8 checklists were designed and validated for midwifery procedures. The students' performances were compared using this method and two other evaluation methods.

Results: The face and content validity of all questions were approved (content validity ratio and content validity index >0.80, inter-rater reliability >0.50, and Cronbach's alpha >0.70). The rate of the students' satisfaction was 19%, 14%, and 76% with the nonchecklist method, the general checklist, and the designed checklist, respectively. Furthermore, both students (F_2,60= 107.07, p < 0.004) and evaluators (F_2,9 = 152.23, p < 0.001) gained significantly higher attitude scores towards the new checklist compared to the two other methods.

Conclusions: The designed checklist was quite reliable and valid for evaluating the midwifery students' clinical skills.

Keywords: Checklist; clinical competence; educational measurement; midwifery; students.