1* PhD Nursing Scholar, Amity University Haryana; Assistant Professor, ACON, Amity University, Haryana (Corresponding Author)
2 Professor, ACON, Amity University, Haryana
3 Ex Principal (actg), CON, AIIMS, New Delhi
4 Principal and Professor, ACON, Amity University, Haryana
Background
One of the significant determinants of teaching and learning outcomes in students is teacher efficacy. Clinical teaching plays an educational role in nursing as the connecting link between theory and practice. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of clinical nursing education is usually affected by the abilities, readiness, and the skill of nursing educators. Despite the fact that a number of teacher efficacy scales have been designed across various nations, there is a paucity of situation-specific scales to assess teaching efficacy in clinical nursing education in India.
Aim
To design a Teaching Efficacy Scale (TES) and a module to measure the clinical nursing instructions provided by teachers in a few nursing colleges of Northern India.
Methods
Both quantitative and methodological cross-sectional design are applied. The research is undertaken in the nursing colleges of Haryana, Punjab and the Delhi-NCR. Stratified proportionate random sample selection is used to choose a total of 500 B.Sc. Nursing students in 2nd, 3rd and 4th years. Delphi technique is sampled by the experts. The TES is created in a three-step, ten-step process that involves specification of content domain, item pool generation, content validity evaluation, questionnaire development, pilot study, dimensionality evaluation, reliability evaluation, and construct validation. Data analysis is done through SPSS where descriptive and inferential statistics are used.
Results
The Teaching Efficacy Scale is likely to measure various aspects such as pedagogical learning environment, role of teacher and evaluation components. The psychometric characteristics of the scale will be determined by reliability and validity testing.
Conclusion
The TES is a universal tool for assessing the effectiveness of clinical teaching and pinpointing levels of weakness in clinical nursing education, thus making a contribution to the enhancement of nursing education and the advancement of clinical competency.
Keywords: Teaching efficacy, Clinical nursing education, Nursing instructors, scale development, clinical teaching evaluation.
How to cite this article: Kaur I, Pandurangan H, Gupta S, Dinesh Selvam S. A Novel Teaching Efficacy Scale for Clinical Nursing Instruction: Development and Validation Study. Int J Drug Deliv Technol. 2026;16(4): 138-152. DOI: 10.25258/ijddt.16.4.16
Source of support: Nil.
Conflict of interest: None