Abstract

CORDERO MIRANDA, Yoslaidy; LLAMAZARES MILIAN, Ana Mayté; CUETO MENA, Adelfa  and  PANDO CAMEJO, Dianelis. Pedagogical preparation for the Nursing-Specialty Professors in the design of evaluation instruments. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.1, pp.82-91. ISSN 1561-3194.

Introduction: the assessment of pedagogical training together with the development of teaching competences that should characterize the professors is a social demand of first order, which should be in agreement with the model of health professionals the current society requires. Objective: to characterize the pedagogical training of the Nursing-Specialty Professors in the design of evaluation instruments in the Republic of Venezuela during 2010. Material and methods: a descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out comprising 20 professors who belonged to the Academic Committees (the target group and the sample coincided). Theoretical, empiric and statistical methods allowed the study of the problem. Results: the totality of professors polled had teaching experience, prevailing instructors, and 95% had attended to a pedagogy course or to courses of evaluation or quality of written-evaluation instruments, the majority were aware of the difficulties they presented in the design of the type of questions following the established requisites, in the selection of the type of questions according to the contents, and in the design of tables of contents. Conclusions: professors of Nursing Studies, despite their teaching experience, teaching rank and/or training courses passed, pedagogical preparation is required to design evaluation instruments in order to improve quality.

Keywords : Medical education; Nursing; Educational measurement.

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