Measuring final-year nursing students' satisfaction with the viva assessment

This paper reports a study conducted to develop and test the psychometric properties of a brief 5-item Satisfaction with the Oral Viva Assessment Scale. The viva has been increasingly used to gauge students' learning, beyond the traditional written assessments. This assessment approach may pose...

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Published in:Nurse education in practice 2016-01, Vol.16 (1), p.91-96
Main Authors: Salamonson, Yenna, Metcalfe, Lauren, Alexandrou, Evan, Cotton, Antoinette H., Mcnally, Stephen, Murphy, Jeff, Frost, Steven A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic performance
Adult
Assessment approaches
Confirmatory factor analysis
Cronbach's alpha
Data Analysis
Dependency
Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate
Educational evaluation
Educational Measurement - methods
Educational Quality
English as an additional language
Evaluation
Exploratory factor analysis
Factor analysis
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Female
Higher education
Humans
Language Proficiency
Learning
Male
Middle Aged
New South Wales
Nursing
Nursing education
Nursing students
Personal Satisfaction
Prospective Studies
Psychometrics
Psychometrics - methods
Quantitative psychology
Reliability
Reproducibility of Results
Student attitudes
Student Diversity
Students
Students, Nursing
Surveys and Questionnaires
Universities
Validity
Viva
Young Adult
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Summary:This paper reports a study conducted to develop and test the psychometric properties of a brief 5-item Satisfaction with the Oral Viva Assessment Scale. The viva has been increasingly used to gauge students' learning, beyond the traditional written assessments. This assessment approach may pose additional challenges to various student groups. Using a prospective, correlational design, this study surveyed 275 final year nursing students about their satisfaction with the viva as an assessment approach. The survey was administered to those who attended a revision session in an undergraduate high dependency unit. Descriptive and inferential statistical analyses, as well as exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of the scale were computed. Exploratory factor analysis yielded a one-component structure that explained 51% of the total variance, which was supported by confirmatory factor analysis (standardised factor loadings: 0.54–0.73). Internal consistency as computed by a Cronbach's alpha was 0.8. The results also revealed that those who obtained higher grades in their viva performance (OR: 2.78, 95% CI: 1.58–4.90) and English-speaking only students (OR: 1.87, 95% CI: 1.07–3.27) were more satisfied with the viva assessment. These findings support the validity and reliability of this scale, and can be used to assess students' satisfaction with the viva.
ISSN:1471-5953
1873-5223
DOI:10.1016/j.nepr.2015.09.003