Designing and Validating of the Questionnaire of Factors Affecting Teacher - Student Relationship from the Point of View of Students of Qom University of Medical Sciences

Background and Objectives: Effective relationship between teacher and student is one of the most important indicators of effective teaching and a strong stimulus for learning. The present research was conducted with the objective of designing validating the questionnaire of factors affecting teacher - student relationship from the viewpoint of students of Qom University of Medical Sciences in 2015.   Methods: In this exploratory study, the questionnaire of the relationship between teachers and students, was designed with the initial list of 46 questions and the participation of 20 students and 5 faculty members. Questionnaire Validation was performed using face validity and content validity and determination of the construct validity, was carried out using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Cronbach alpha coefficient and intra-class correlation coefficient tests were used to determine the reliability of the questionnaire. Data were analyzed by exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and using SPSS version 16 and Lisrel 8.80 soft wares.   Results: The results showed that 35 questions of the Teacher-Student Relationship questionnaire had an acceptable content validity (0.68 to 0.97). Measures of the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient and intra-class correlation coefficient, were reported to be 0.90 and 0.85, respectively. Exploratory factor analysis reduced the questions to 22 questions and categorized the items to five factors (individual ability, academic ability, communication, professional ethics, religion, and belief, and overall, explained a total of 54% of all variance of these variables.   Conclusion: The findings of this research indicated that the factors affecting the relationship between teachers and students, have acceptable validity and reliability and can be used in research activities.