Program efficacy was examined using a pre-post, delayed post-test design linked to quantitative measures of teacher knowledge, performance (explanatory competence), and acceptance using published instruments shown to generate reliable and valid inferences.
In addition, the study's combination of feedback from multiple methods, reflection and mentoring is consistent with the call for innovation in assessing professional competence and shows how assessment instruments might be used together to promote performance improvement.
The data were collected with the Medication Competence and Associated Factors [MCAF] instrument developed for the study.
However, domain-specific models of teachers' competencies, as well as competence measurement instruments are still lacking (Blömeke et al. 2013; Schmelzing et al. 2013).
To identify competence assessment instruments in perianesthesia nursing care and to describe the validity and reliability of the instruments.
Assessing clinical competence in nursing students abroad is a challenge, and requires both methods and instruments capable of capturing the multidimensional nature of the clinical competences acquired.
In addition, more research is needed to demonstrate the validity of a cutoff score on a standardized assessment instrument for competence and the desirability of such a cutoff must be considered.
Patients' experience and satisfaction research instruments include the competence and friendliness of the staff as well as their interaction within the team.
The most important barriers to the use of measurement instruments included physical therapists' competence and problems in changing behaviour, practice organisation (no room; no time) and the unavailability and feasibility of measurement instruments.
The Social Skills Rating System (SSRS; Gresham and Elliott [1990]) is a multirater norm-referenced instrument designed to identify social competence and adaptive behaviour in children across three domains - social skills, problem behaviours and academic competence.
In this study, the teacher form of the short version was used as an observational assessment instrument of children's social competence and emotional well-being.
