Abstract
Introduction: Educational needs assessment as the first step of educational design consists of identifying educational needs and ranking them in order of priority. The best method to determine the educational needs of faculty members is a comprehensive needs assessment, taking into account all the main roles mentioned and their sub-roles. For this purpose, there is a need for a standardized and standardized tool that includes all the roles of a faculty member.
This research was conducted in order to provide valid and reliable tools for assessing the educational needs of the academic staff members of the emergency medicine and radio-oncology departments of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran and Tehran.
Materials & Methods: The research method was a descriptive psychometric type of instrument. In the first stage, the educational needs assessment tool of academic staff members, which was designed in English in a foreign study and was used and evaluated by emergency medicine specialists, was translated into Persian. Then, during group or individual meetings with the group of experts, the roles and questions of the questionnaire were discussed and finally the face validity and content validity were evaluated and in some cases, corrections were applied to the questionnaire... to determine the structural validity, the exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis method and for Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to determine reliability.
Results: The findings showed that most of the questionnaire items had acceptable content validity (0.75 to 1). Cronbach's alpha coefficient and intraclass correlation coefficient were reported as 0.82 and 0.83, respectively. Factor analysis confirmed the existence of construct validity in the questionnaire questions.
Conclusion: According to the findings, the Persian version of the educational needs assessment questionnaire of academic staff is a reliable and validated tool that can be used for research, educational and practical purposes.