Development of curriculum integration attitude assessment scale for nursing students

Abstract

Objective To develop a curriculum integration attitude assessment scale for students in nursing school of China and to test its reliability and validity. Methods The first draft of scale was developed with the methods of literature review and Delphi technique. From June to November 2018, we selected 575 interns from three nursing schools undergoing curriculum integration in Heilongjiang Province as respondents by convenience sampling. The reliability and validity of this scale were tested. Results The curriculum integration attitude assessment scale for nursing students included three dimensions and 20 items. The content validity index of the total scale was 0.943 and that of items ranged from 0.8 to 1.0. Exploratory factor analysis extracted three factors including value tendency, participation tendency and emotional tendency with 77.602% for the cumulative variance contribution.The Cronbach's α coefficient of the total scale was 0.928 and that of dimensions ranged from 0.942 to 0.954; the Spearman-Brown coefficient of the total scale was 0.879 and that of dimensions ranged from 0.921 to 0.933; the test-retest reliability coefficient of the total scale was 0.789 and that of dimensions ranged from 0.549 to 0.779. Conclusions The curriculum integration attitude assessment scale for nursing students has high reliability and validity which can be used to assess nursing students' attitude with curriculum integration so as to provide a scientific basis for further optimize curriculum system and a reference for similar teaching assessment. Key words: Students, nursing; Curriculum integration; Nursing; Scale