Table 2. Characteristics of composite scales and items, with internal consistency reliability coefficient and corrected item-total correlations.
| Item number | Scale and items† | Factor loadings on primary scale | Internal consistency reliability coefficient: Cronbach's α* | Corrected item-total correlations‡ | ||
| Residents' evaluations | Residents' evaluations | Faculty self-evaluation | Residents' evaluations | Faculty self-evaluation | ||
| Learning climate | 0.84 | 0.76 | ||||
| Q01 | Encourages residents to participate actively in discussions | 0.604 | 0.633 | 0.624 | ||
| Q02 | Stimulates residents to bring up problems | 0.605 | 0.652 | 0.538 | ||
| Q03 | Motivates residents to study further | 0.781 | 0.702 | 0.609 | ||
| Q04 | Stimulates residents to keep up with the literature | 0.798 | 0.702 | 0.528 | ||
| Q05 | Prepares well for teaching presentations and talks | 0.519 | 0.530 | 0.373 | ||
| Professional attitude and behavior towards residents | 0.89 | 0.81 | ||||
| Q06 | Listens attentively to residents | 0.771 | 0.715 | 0.617 | ||
| Q07 | Is respectful towards residents | 0.807 | 0.747 | 0.700 | ||
| Q08 | Is easily approachable during on-calls | 0.848 | 0.756 | 0.624 | ||
| Q09 | Is easily approachable for consultation | 0.834 | 0.796 | 0.542 | ||
| Communication of goals | 0.94 | 0.89 | ||||
| Q10 | States learning goals clearly | 0.807 | 0.830 | 0.674 | ||
| Q11 | States relevant goals | 0.827 | 0.885 | 0.846 | ||
| Q12 | Prioritizes learning goals | 0.821 | 0.878 | 0.811 | ||
| Q13 | Repeats stated learning goals periodically | 0.820 | 0.850 | 0.710 | ||
| Evaluation of residents | 0.87 | 0.79 | ||||
| Q14 | Evaluates residents' specialty knowledge regularly | 0.511 | 0.727 | 0.515 | ||
| Q15 | Evaluates residents' analytical abilities regularly | 0.516 | 0.729 | 0.376 | ||
| Q16 | Evaluates residents' application of knowledge to specific patients regularly | 0.500 | 0.720 | 0.419 | ||
| Q17 | Evaluates residents' medical skills regularly | 0.668 | 0.745 | 0.734 | ||
| Q18 | Evaluates residents' surgical skills regularly | 0.626 | 0.666 | 0.694 | ||
| Q19 | Educates about surgical skills in the operation room | 0.778 | 0.481 | 0.504 | ||
| Feedback | 0.88 | 0.86 | ||||
| Q20 | Gives positive feedback to residents regularly | 0.597 | 0.641 | 0.673 | ||
| Q21 | Gives corrective feedback to residents | 0.853 | 0.709 | 0.634 | ||
| Q22 | Explains why residents are incorrect | 0.799 | 0.810 | 0.776 | ||
| Q23 | Offers suggestions for improvement | 0.790 | 0.783 | 0.735 | ||
*Cronbach's α>0.70 was taken as an indication of satisfactory reliability of each composite scale.
†
The items shared the same subject with different foregoing sentences “During my residency in obstetrics and gynecology, the attending faculty generally…” (residents' evaluation of faculty) or “In my role as an attending faculty, I generally…” (faculty self-evaluation).
‡
Item-total correlation values <0.3 indicate that the corresponding item does not correlate well with the composite scale.