DEVELOPMENT AND CONTENT VALIDITY OF AN OUTCOME-BASED EDUCATION CURRICULUM EVALUATION FOR MALAYSIAN PARAMEDIC TRAINING INSTITUTES
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https://doi.org/10.35631/IJMOE.830041Keywords:
Content Validity, Curriculum, Evaluation, Outcome-Based Education, ParamedicAbstract
The primary purpose of curriculum evaluation is to assess the effectiveness of the existing curriculum. This study aims to evaluate the content validity of newly developed instruments for assessing the implementation of the OBE curriculum in paramedic training institutes by selecting a diverse group of experts and ensuring that the instrument is relevant to the demands of producing competitive graduates. There were two phases involved in this study: design of the instrument and judgmental indications. A panel of seven experts was selected to validate the questionnaire. There were four experiential university lecturers and three paramedic tutors involved in the OBE curriculum. The quantitative content validity index (CVI), scale-level CVI (S-CVI), and item-CVI (I-CVI) were applied to decide whether to keep or remove certain items from the instrument. Preliminary versions of this instrument showed high content validity for individual items (I-CVI range: 0.7-1.0) and excellent overall scale content validity (S-CVI = 0.95). The initial 138 items remained when achieving a minimum score of at least 0.86. Most of the items were retained (n =131), and only seven were eliminated, which were considered not relevant by the experts. Despite time and resource constraints, a professional content validity index for OBE curriculum practice indicators in paramedic training institutes is crucial for the development of valid and reliable instrument.
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