STUDENT EVALUATION OF CLINICAL EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT
STUDENT EVALUATION OF CLINICAL EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT
STUDENT EVALUATION OF CLINICAL EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT
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Due to an identified need to assess the degree to which a classroom’s environment is<br />
consistent with a more constructivist philosophy, Taylor and Fraser (1991) developed the<br />
Constructivist Learning Environment Survey (CLES). The inventory items are divided among<br />
the four scales of autonomy, prior knowledge, negotiation, and student-centeredness. Reported<br />
scale reliability scores for the actual version of this instrument ranged from .61 - .79.<br />
Idiris and Fraser slightly modified the original CLES instrument to measure the perceived<br />
learning environment of 1175 agricultural science students in 20 different Nigerian secondary<br />
schools. They added the Investigation and Differentiation scales contained in the ICEQ to the<br />
original CLES scales, and dropped the Prior Knowledge scale. Within-scale reliability scores<br />
varied from .71 to .96 with the school mean as the unit of analysis and from .55 - .82 with the<br />
individual as the unit of analysis. Correlation of each individual scale with all other scales varied<br />
from .33 - .49 for group data, somewhat higher than scale correlations reported for the MCI,<br />
CES, ICEQ, and SLEI, but comparable to those reported for the CUCEI. Between scale<br />
correlations using individual data were slightly lower at .24 - .39. The actual form was found to<br />
differentiate significantly (p< .001) between perceptions of students in different schools, with 14<br />
- 45% of the variance in scale scores accounted for by school membership (Idiris & Fraser,<br />
1994).<br />
Very recently, Cannon (1997) administered both the preferred and the actual forms of the<br />
original CLES instrument to 108 American students enrolled in college science courses (biology,<br />
chemistry and physics). He reported within-scale reliability scores ranging from .63 - .89 for the<br />
actual (perceived) inventory form and from .35 - .91 for the preferred form. Chemistry students’<br />
scale reliability scores for the Prior Knowledge and Autonomy scales were noticeably lower than<br />
other reliability scores, at .35 and .57 respectively. Cannon found that student perceived scores<br />
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