The development and evaluation of a lab report scoring checklist to assess the practical skills indirectly in an undergraduate optics course
<p>This study was carried out to develop and evaluate the practicality of a lab report</p><p>scoring checklist to assess practical skills indirectly in the undergraduate optics course</p><p>(UOC). The study employed quantitative a...
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| Language: | eng |
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2023
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| Summary: | <p>This study was carried out to develop and evaluate the practicality of a lab report</p><p>scoring checklist to assess practical skills indirectly in the undergraduate optics course</p><p>(UOC). The study employed quantitative approach with the support of qualitative data.</p><p>A scoring checklist was developed for the obtained context from the needs analysis</p><p>using the ADDIE instructional design model. The checklist was validated by six experts</p><p>from the physics and physics education fields. The face validity was analysed using</p><p>descriptive statistics, while the content validity was analysed using the Content</p><p>Validation Index (CVI). The pilot test was conducted in three cyclic processes to obtain</p><p>the reliability of the developed checklist. It involved three raters from different</p><p>educational levels who evaluated 35 UOC lab reports. The first stage involves the</p><p>analysis of inter-rater agreement using Fleiss kappa coefficient. Next, the Cohens</p><p>kappa analysis was employed to determine the reliability of inter-rater agreement for</p><p>each cycle. After that, the practicality of checklist was evaluated by two lecturers while</p><p>marking 32 UOC lab reports. The instrument practicality was analysed using</p><p>descriptive statistics. Findings indicated that the developed scoring checklist had</p><p>satisfactory face validity, content validity (SCVI/Ave = 0.98, SCVI/UA = 0.87), interrater</p><p>agreement, and test-retest reliability. The checklist also obtained satisfactory</p><p>practicality level among course lecturers. As a conclusion, a lab report scoring checklist</p><p>with satisfactory validity, reliability and practicality level to assess indirect practical</p><p>skills in UOC has been successfully developed in this study. This study implies that the</p><p>developed checklist could overcome the practical skill assessment loads faced by the</p><p>UOC lecturers, guides the students in writing a professional lab report and proves that</p><p>the indirect assessment can be utilised to assess practical skills in the physics laboratory.</p> |
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