Marjo J M Maas, Dominique M A Sluijsmans, Philip J van der Wees, Yvonne F Heerkens, Maria W G Nijhuis-van der Sanden, Cees P M van der Vleuten
Why peer assessment helps to improve clinical performance in undergraduate physical therapy education: a mixed methods design
BMC medical education
important educators consider communication skills students enrolled health science programmes date research area limited measures valid reliable would assist educators researchers complete highquality investigations purpose study investigate factor structure communicator styles measure data communicator styles measure completed 860 undergraduate health science students enrolled eight different courses australian university response rate 59 analysed using principal component analysis varimax rotation cluster analysis using elementary linkage analysis communicator styles measure selfreport scale consisting 40 items designed assess ten communication styles ones perception hisher ability communicate communicator styles measure items loaded onto five new viable factors labelled personable energetic confident open confronting six items original 40 communicator styles measure load onto factor therefore considered redundant original factor structure proposed communicator styles measures author supported calls question construct validity however five new factors identified study may useful researchers educators assessing communication skills students practitioners investigation construct validity reliability five new communicator styles measure factors recommended