Evaluation of teaching in a student-led clinic environment: Assessing the reliability of a questionnaire

Abstract

Introduction: The Osteopathy Clinical Teaching Questionnaire (OCTQ) has been designed to evaluate the quality of clinical teaching in osteopathy student-led clinics. Previous research has provided evidence for the scoring, generalisation and implications components of the validity argument for the OCTQ. The aim of the present study was to assess the reliability of the OCTQ providing further evidence for the validity argument. Method: Senior students in the final years of two Australian osteopathy programs completed the OCTQ for each clinical educator with whom they had worked with during a semester. Generalisability analysis, test-retest reliability and internal structure estimation were use..