Qiong Wu, Na Meng, Xiaotong Wang, Lin Li, Jian Zhang, Yiwen Huang, Yanfeng Zhang
Complementary feeding practices for children aged 6-23 months in early childhood education institutions in urban China: A cross-sectional study
Journal of global health
health social care education highly important preparing future professionals future roles sustainable health social care however previous studies emphasized health social care educators competence complex poorly defined thus clear need psychometrically validated instrument enable clarification assessment required skills develop psychometrically validate instrument hesoeduco assessing health social care educators competence higher professional education crosssectional study hesoeduco instrument items inviting 14 likert scale responses developed based one systematic review one qualitative study validated terms face content construct validity internal consistency cronbachs alpha values health social care educators based 21 universities applied sciences finland seven vocational colleges subsequently invited participate largescale application instrument fall 2018 total responses 390 educators analyzed face content validity 71 newly developed items assessed experts two evaluation rounds final content validity showed high scores instruments relevance clarity confirmatory factor analysis test construct validity yielded eight factors 43items remaining defining following competence areas educators evidencebased practice digital collaborative learning studentcentered pedagogy collaboration societal leadership management cultural linguistic diversity mentoring student professional competence development subject curriculum cronbachs alpha values factors ranged 070 089 instrument used obtain selfevaluations educators competence assessing general competence levels help human resources departments managers identify suitable continuous education programs staff